“Gilbert and Sullivan wers probably joking when they proslaimed that "a policeman's iot is not a happy one," but law enforcement officers tend to view this hypothesis as an established fact. In professional publications and in conferences concerned with police problems, the theme of the "unhappy lot" energes with increasing frequency…”

Project Narrative: The problem-oriented approach to policing is only ten years old but has received wide endorsement. It has been called "a philosophical revolution" and "the cutting edge of policing" (Malcolm, 1989). Wilson and Kelling (1989) have written that the concept "constitutes the beginning of the most significant redefinition of police work in the past half century" (p. 48). James K. Stewart (1987) has noted that "the problem-solving approach to policing. • • represents a significant evolutionary step in helping law enforcement work smarter and not harder…”

Research Progrtam on Public Policy, Institute of Justice. U.S. 1990. 127 p.

By Hans Toch. 1950s?

By Hans H. Toch.

Michigan State University. 1950s. 11p.

Ben-Ami Lipetz and Hans H. Toch. Unpublished Preliminary Draft. No Date (ca. 1990) 91 pages.

“A s community policing and problem-oriented policing become more sophisticated, it becomes harder to see the two as completely separable.” Paper presented to the Community Policing Symposium, San Jose, California, March 30 (1993) 11 pages.

“Gilbert and Sullivan were probably joking when they proclaimed that ‘a policeman’s lot is not a happy one,’ but law enforcement officers tend to view this hypothesis as an established fact.”Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, September 1 (1963) 11 pages.