How have the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001, affected the future of policing? Law enforcement personnel are being asked to take part in "homeland defense" against terrorism. Building a force competent to handle the new terrorist threats along with nonterrorist crime relies on the same principles of integrity that it always has. No one charged with protecting the public safety can afford to believe that community-oriented, problem-solving, and "broken-windows" policing are less essential to the public safety today than they were before September 11.

What should police and law enforcement do to protect the public from future terrorist atrocities? How should police departments avoid wearing down their personnel? How can they effectively promote public safety without causing inordinate public fear? How should police leaders deal with extremes of public opinion, from the idea that police can do no right to the idea that police can do no wrong? Edwin J. Delattre, author of Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing, Fourth Edition (AEI Press, 2002), will address these issues and others in this book forum