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Law Enforcement Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

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  • Jeff Rojek
  • Michael R. Smith

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Major disasters represent infrequent events that often require response organizations to vicariously learn from the experiences of others in order to improve their operations. A primary mechanism for such knowledge diffusion is the different practitioner and empirical journals for the organizational fields that comprise disaster response. A review of the literature for the law enforcement field, however, reveals that little attention is given to how these organizations manage actual disasters. In particular, the presentation of organizational experiences, whether through case studies or other methodologies, is very limited in the practitioner and empirical literature of this field. This represents a considerable problem for improvements of disaster response operations given that law enforcement agencies represent a key component in such efforts. The research presented in this article is an effort to fill this knowledge gap and thereby facilitate organizational learning to improve future law enforcement disaster response activities. The authors traveled to Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina to examine the response efforts of state and local law enforcement agencies to the storm. The findings from this research are reported here in a lessons‐learned format to inform law enforcement disaster response policy.

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  • Jeff Rojek & Michael R. Smith, 2007. "Law Enforcement Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 24(6), pages 589-608, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:24:y:2007:i:6:p:589-608
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2007.00301.x
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