The next step, he said, was "to get people to like us, and then to have the community help set police policy."

The interest which this shift in police policy provoked was considerable.

It will require leadership and significant changes in police policy to reverse these perceptions.

In accordance with police policy, both were suspended without pay for 30 days.

"And that's pretty much the standard police policy throughout the state."

And parents said four accidents should be enough to prompt a change in police policy.

"So what's the police policy about being intoxicated on the job?"

Such arrests do not parallel the police "quality of life" arrest policy.

Perhaps a debate about police policy does not belong in a courtroom.

The changes in police policy, however, could bear greater fruit.