1. Framing the future -- Thinking about and responding to threats -- 2. Policing today -- The political era -- The reform era -- The community era -- Order-maintenance policing -- Deterrence through presence -- Directed patrol and crackdowns -- Problem-oriented policing -- The intelligence-led policing era -- 3. Crime does not respect jurisdiction -- The force of jurisdictions -- Formal cooperation -- Policing across borders: the United States and Mexico -- Limits of international cooperation -- 4. The technology revolution enables change -- The challenge of technology -- Technology and changes in policing -- Data collection and processing -- Problem-solving -- Partnerships -- Organizational structure -- Integrating technology into police departments -- 5. The threat will continue to morph -- Taking advantage of seams -- Technological advances -- Technology-enabled crime and the Internet -- Cyber crime -- Virtual crimes and real crimes in virtual worlds -- Social, demographic, and economic shifts -- Increasing movement of goods, services, and information -- 6. Concepts of operations are critical -- Changing organizations -- New workforce demands -- Constraints on changing ConOps -- Challenge of changing cultures: the FBI -- Budgetary considerations and outsourcing -- Legal and political restrictions -- Technology, jurisdiction, and ConOps -- 7. Moving toward the vision -- Educate personnel and leaders -- Transition to common technical platforms -- Leverage winning technologies -- Leverage changing police, public, and private interactions and relations -- Drawing maximum benefit form federal leadership and funding -- Readers take over.