This paper was written in hopes that it will have some impact on retaining the necessary budgetary resources to maintain the state and local appropriations for the Police Career Incentive Pay Program in Massachusetts. It contains excerpts from my dissertation (written in 2003) as well as an updated review of the literature on police reform and higher education and highlights the historical and modern day importance of higher education in law enforcement. I remain today as passionate about the importance of a college educated police force as I did when I began writing my dissertation. I hope that upon reading this paper, you too will feel the same passion about this issue.

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