Blue Revolution

English

Etymology

In the policing sense, possibly coined by Michael Massing in the New York Review.

Proper noun

the Blue Revolution

1. The large-scale proliferation of aquaculture in the late 20th century.
2. (law enforcement) A shift in law enforcement strategies and practices aimed at enhancing community management and improving public trust.
   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:

     The order-maintenance approach has not been limited to scholarly books, law review articlees, and academic conferences. A number of the policy proposals have been implemented in large cities […] and in smaller cities and rural areas. In many cases, in fact, it is new policing strategies that have triggered social norm theorizing, not the other way around. And the combination of theorizing and practice has been truly combustible. It has ignited what has been dubbed the "Blue Revolution."

   • 2011, Gregory Holcomb Umbach, The Last Neighborhood Cops, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     In contemplating the “Blue Revolution,” scholars of all stripes have generally proceeded on the assumption that no big-city police force in the postwar period offered an example of community policing worth investigating.