Jean-Paul Brodeur on High and low policing

This paper is divided in three parts. The first part is a close reading of "High Policing and Low policing..", Jean-Paul Brodeur's most influential article, which was published in 1983. This discussion takes into account the refined version of this argument seen in The Policing Web, his last book. The second part is an assessment of the prescience of the high and low policing paper. It foretold contemporaneous developments whose pace has accelerated in the post-9/11 environment. The third part is a reflection on the importance of including high policing in an emergent theory of policing.