Book excerpt: Proactive Police Management continues to be used widely throughout the nation as a text for college courses and as a reference for police administrators and aspiring supervisors. The focus of the Seventh Edition continues to be that police managers must be proactive instead of reactive. While the term has many connotations, proactive means foreseeing events, situations, and potential threats before they become overwhelming issues through the use of long and short term planning. Proactive police managers must continually have open communication with the major stakeholders within the community in order for the department's objectives to be accomplished.