Welcome to law enforcement, the greatest show on earth. You have mere seconds to make life and death decisions that can forever change the future of another human’s beings life and most certainly your own. The decisions you just made in a matter of seconds will be judged by everyone who wasn’t there, for months and possibly years to come. You face danger, adversity, the unknown, and an immense amount of responsibility. To the large majority this would send them packing and saying no thanks, but it’s a profession that is a necessity with less than one percent of the population stepping up to the plate. With this necessity change is part of the process of progress and with progress there will be growing pains. Police reform is a hotly contested topic in the United States with input coming in from all directions. I have many beliefs about the future direction of law enforcement, while I may not be the most qualified individual to write about the topic I have some very unique views and ideas that I hope for in the future. The topics I will discuss are social media/technology, and tactics/training. Police Reform, at the end of the 19th century, groups attempted to reform law enforcement. This progressivism was a social movement advocating progress, change, improvement, and reform as opposed to maintaining things as they were. At this time reform was necessary since organized law enforcement in this country was fairly new and rampant with corruption. One person we can thank for early progress in law enforcement is President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. Before Teddy was busy running the country he was involved in reforming societal issue and along with that he was the president of the New York Board of Police Commissioners. During this progressive movement reformers established civil service. Under civil service, career appointments and status are determined by merit and examination rather than by political affiliation. Eventually, civil service helped to get rid of most political corruption in American police departments. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Myspace, YouTube, Pinterest, and the thousand other social media sites that spring up every day are the medium of our society. If you went and polled your workspace you would most likely find that your co-workers get most of their news and information from Facebook rather than a major news network. You will also find most law enforcement agencies are mostly if not completely out of touch with their local populace. Most agencies will have some sort of social media outlet that they occasion