Leading between Economics and experts have been commissioned to introduce readers to the latest thinking and Change in Policing: A Policy research on a number of current policing issues and innovations in order to inform Framework and stimulate further discourse on the future of policing and public safety in Michael Kempa Canada. [...] CPC Discussion Paper Series Page 2 Economics and Change in Policing Introduction In this discussion paper I will illustrate that the particular historical conditions that were This paper addresses the challenges for public necessary for the birth and rise to dominance of policing and public safety in Canada posed by the conventional reactive, uniformed public the current global political and econo [...] In the era of booming markets, considered to be inferior, and thereby incapable Smith and other classic liberals thought the best of liberal "governance at-a-distance" – he was thing to do to get markets to grow was to get able to gradually wear down resistance to the government out of the way. [...] The sudden and outright collapse of Throughout Britain, Canada and most especially the economy challenged classic liberals’ faith in in the United States, many local governments the power of the free market to regulate itself, were resistant to the expansion of Peel’s and wiped out the entrepreneurial spirit and policing model, as, they preferred to retain a capacity of citizens. [...] Combined with is considered necessary to scale back the social a reliable energy supply, governments had all safety net in order to expose citizens to the the resources they needed to expand the entire rigors and risks of the marketplace, learn from social safety net, including the system for public their triumphs and mistakes and rekindle their policing.