The history of Northern Ireland's police transformation could offer insights as policymakers discuss models to reshape police departments across the U.S. The Police Service of Northern Ireland, as it is called now, has an approval rate of 90% among the citizens, but this is thanks to a campaign that started 20 years ago, after years of police violence against the Catholic minority, to create a police department that would serve and protect all citizens of Northern Ireland irrespective of their credo. Step by step, this has been accomplished, and now its lessons could serve as a model of a reconstructed police service that would care for all the citizens equally.
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