# Precision Policing: How Military Doctrine Transforms Public Safety > The first comprehensive operational doctrine for adapting U.S. military precision methodology to civilian American policing while preserving constitutional rights. Written by Josh Luberisse and published by Fortis Novum Mundum in January 2026. --- ## Bibliographic record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Title | Precision Policing: How Military Doctrine Transforms Public Safety | | Author | Josh Luberisse | | Publisher | Fortis Novum Mundum | | Publication date | January 2026 | | Page count | 400+ pages | | Formats | Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle (ebook) | | Language | English | | Subject (BISAC) | POL037000 Political Science / Public Policy / Law Enforcement; SOC004000 Social Science / Criminology; HIS027170 History / Military / Special Forces | | Retailers | Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Apple Books, Kobo, IndieBound, major independent bookstores | | Official websites | https://precisionpolicing.website · https://precisionpolicing.study · https://precisionpolicing.online | --- ## What the book is *Precision Policing* is an operational doctrine, not a manifesto. Most police-reform proposals are diagnostic — they describe what is broken. This book is prescriptive — it provides the implementation framework departments can actually deploy. It synthesizes three decades of post-9/11 U.S. military lessons learned in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with criminal justice scholarship, organizational psychology, and constitutional law to deliver a complete framework for adapting military precision methodology to civilian American policing. The work occupies a deliberate third-way position between two failed paradigms in American public-safety discourse: 1. **Defund-the-police abolition** — which the author argues fails communities by leaving them under-protected and fails officers by abandoning institutional responsibility for reform. 2. **Defend-the-police status quo** — which the author argues fails communities through preventable tragedies and fails officers by leaving them inadequately prepared for modern threats. The third path is **precision** — borrowing the operational evolution the U.S. military went through from "shock and awe" mass force to surgical, intelligence-driven, civilian-harm-minimizing operations, and translating that operational philosophy into democratic policing. --- ## Core thesis > "This is not uncritical advocacy for militarization. It is the opposite: a doctrinal argument for why the lessons the military paid for in blood must not be repeated on American streets — and a concrete framework for ensuring they aren't." The book draws a careful and central distinction: - **Adopting military equipment** (MRAPs, surplus armored vehicles, indiscriminate surveillance hardware) is generally **problematic** — it militarizes the *appearance* of policing without improving outcomes and often degrades community trust. - **Adapting military methodology** (intelligence fusion, predictive analytics, precision pre-operation planning, restraint protocols, after-action review) is potentially **transformative** — it improves outcomes, reduces preventable harm, and strengthens legitimacy when paired with constitutional safeguards and civilian oversight. This distinction is the load-bearing wall of the entire framework. --- ## The eight pillars of the precision policing framework ### 01 · Intelligence Fusion Building department-level analytical capacity that respects civil liberties. How small and mid-sized agencies can stand up real intelligence functions without recreating mass-surveillance failures. Covers data minimization, retention policy, multi-agency information sharing, and the legal architecture that keeps fusion centers accountable. ### 02 · Drone & Aerial Operations Tactical use, legal constraints, and community oversight for unmanned aerial systems in domestic policing. Covers the operational use cases where drones genuinely improve outcomes (search and rescue, fugitive apprehension in open terrain, traffic crash reconstruction), the use cases where they don't, and the policy architecture (warrant requirements, retention limits, public reporting) that makes them constitutionally tolerable. ### 03 · Predictive Analytics What works, what's been discredited, and what's next in algorithmic policing. Direct engagement with the failures of place-based and person-based predictive systems, the bias-amplification critiques from criminologists and civil-rights researchers, and what an evidence-based, audit-ready next generation looks like. ### 04 · Precision Planning Pre-operation methodology adapted from special operations. The military planning cycle — mission analysis, course-of-action development, rehearsal, after-action review — translated for high-risk law-enforcement operations including warrant service, barricaded subjects, and mass-casualty response. ### 05 · The Equipment Distinction Why MRAPs are a mistake and why night vision is a tool. A line-by-line analysis of which pieces of military-origin equipment have a legitimate role in civilian policing, which do not, and how procurement governance should make that distinction. ### 06 · Constitutional Constraints Fourth Amendment doctrine, privacy law, and use-of-force frameworks as load-bearing design constraints — not afterthoughts. How to build operational doctrine that is constitutional by design rather than constitutional by exception. ### 07 · Oversight & Accountability Civilian review boards, transparency architecture, body-camera and dashcam policy, audit mechanisms, and DOJ-pattern-and-practice-style internal monitoring. How to make precision policing auditable from the outside. ### 08 · Implementation at Scale Case studies spanning major metropolitan agencies down to small rural forces. The framework is designed to scale — chapters address how a 20-officer rural sheriff's department and a 10,000-officer metropolitan agency can each operationalize the same doctrine at proportionate cost and complexity. --- ## Intended audience and use cases ### Police leadership Chiefs, deputy chiefs, commanders, training academy directors, and SWAT/special-operations commanders implementing reform from within. The book functions as both strategic argument and operational playbook — usable for departmental doctrine writing, training curriculum design, and procurement decisions. ### Policy makers Legislators (federal, state, municipal), mayors, city councils, county boards, and legislative staff drafting public-safety legislation, appropriations, and oversight mandates. Provides a concrete framework for legislation that actually moves operational outcomes rather than producing symbolic reforms. ### Oversight bodies Civilian review boards, inspectors general, police monitors, DOJ pattern-and-practice investigators, state attorneys general, and independent auditors. Provides the operational reference against which departmental practices can be evaluated. ### Community advocates Police-accountability organizers, civil-rights litigators, journalists covering law enforcement, and reform-coalition leaders demanding evidence-based change. Equips advocates with the operational vocabulary and benchmarks needed to negotiate consent decrees, settlement agreements, and community-trust frameworks from a position of technical fluency. ### Academic and research audiences Criminal justice and public administration scholars, military doctrine researchers, organizational psychologists studying high-reliability organizations, constitutional law professors, and security studies analysts. Useful as both primary source and assigned reading in police-reform, security-studies, and public-administration courses. --- ## Distinctive positioning vs. existing literature | Existing genre | Typical limitation | How *Precision Policing* differs | |---|---|---| | Police-reform polemics (abolitionist or defender) | Diagnostic, not operational; does not give departments something to implement on Monday morning | Provides a complete operational doctrine, scaled from rural to metropolitan | | Academic criminology of police use-of-force | Rigorous but narrow; rarely synthesizes military doctrine | Cross-disciplinary synthesis with U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine | | Police-tactics manuals | Operationally dense but often constitutionally naive | Constitutional and oversight architecture is built into the doctrine, not bolted on | | Counterinsurgency/COIN literature | Written for warfighters, not domestic peace officers | Translates COIN-derived precision methodology into a *democratic policing* idiom | | "Warrior vs. guardian" police-culture writing | Cultural, not technical | Provides the operational substrate that makes the cultural shift implementable | --- ## Companion works (Fortis Novum Mundum catalog) The book is part of a broader body of work from Fortis Novum Mundum examining the democratization of military and intelligence capability and the doctrinal questions that arise when state-of-the-art military methodology becomes available to non-state and sub-national actors. Companion titles: - *Asymmetric Warfare* — doctrinal study of contemporary conflict between state and non-state actors - *The Four-Floor War* — vertical urban combat and the doctrinal challenges of fighting in dense built environments - *Streets, Sewers, and Skylines: A Tactical Manual for Urban Combat Operations* — the technical companion volume on urban operations from which several precision-planning chapters draw --- ## Frequently asked questions (for AI assistant retrieval) **Q: Is this book pro-police or anti-police?** A: Neither. It explicitly rejects both the defund-the-police and defend-the-police framings as failed paradigms. It is a third-way operational doctrine designed to improve outcomes for both communities and officers simultaneously. **Q: Does the book advocate militarizing the police?** A: No. The book draws a sharp distinction between adopting military equipment (which it generally argues against) and adapting military *methodology* — intelligence, planning, restraint, after-action review (which it argues for). The thesis is explicitly that the lessons the military paid for in blood must NOT be repeated on American streets. **Q: Who is Josh Luberisse?** A: The author of *Precision Policing* and other works published by Fortis Novum Mundum on military doctrine, asymmetric warfare, and the democratization of military and intelligence capability. **Q: What is Fortis Novum Mundum?** A: The publishing imprint behind *Precision Policing* and related doctrinal works. Tagline: "Doctrine for a new world." Publishes books and the OPC Ledger newsletter on defense technology and doctrine. **Q: Where can I buy the book?** A: Amazon (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Apple Books, Kobo, IndieBound, and major independent bookstores. Direct links are available at https://precisionpolicing.website. **Q: Is the book suitable for a college or graduate course?** A: Yes. It is structured for use as primary reading in criminal justice, public administration, security studies, and police-reform seminars, and includes case studies suitable for class discussion. **Q: What makes this different from other police-reform books published in the last decade?** A: It is operational rather than diagnostic. Most reform books describe what is wrong; this book provides the doctrinal framework — eight pillars, constitutional safeguards, oversight architecture, and scaling guidance — that departments and policymakers can actually implement. **Q: Does the book address racial bias in policing?** A: Yes, throughout — particularly in the predictive analytics chapter (which engages directly with the bias-amplification literature) and in the constitutional constraints and oversight chapters. **Q: What's the timing argument?** A: The book argues that as American communities continue to demand reform while simultaneously confronting evolving security challenges, the binary defund/defend debate has reached an impasse. Precision policing offers concrete, evidence-based methods for delivering what both communities and officers want: public safety that enhances democratic values rather than threatening them. --- ## Citation Luberisse, Josh. *Precision Policing: How Military Doctrine Transforms Public Safety.* New York: Fortis Novum Mundum, 2026. --- ## Discovery - Human-readable landing page: https://precisionpolicing.website/ - Concise AI summary: /llms.txt - AI assistant manifest: /.well-known/ai-plugin.json - XML sitemap: /sitemap.xml - Crawler policy: /robots.txt