Write an 8-10 page paper (a total of approximately 2000).

Effective leaders both learn from the past and are able to adapt what they have learned to the present context.

In your paper, discuss how you, as Police Chief of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, a city with race problems and distrust of the police, can challenge the status quo and make a positive difference by improving the people's opinion of the police force and lower the crime rate.

In brief, your paper should outline a plan by which you can change (and hopefully improve) the city. Use the readings (BELOW) as a starting point but incorporate readings that you feel are appropriate as well.

Be sure to clearly describe how you will challenge your subordinate officers to make a positive difference in the community and get more people to feel safe in the downtown area. Also outline a time frame for your plan: for example, 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, or more.

The paper MUST reference:

‘Civil Disobedience' by Henry David Thoreau link: http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil1.html

‘The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm

"The Prince" Niccolo Machiavelli link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm

"The Manifesto of the Communist Party" Karl Marx and Frederick Engels link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

And you MUST reference examples of the type of leadership that these two people used to challenge authority during their time and how it can be applied today

Harriet Tubman link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

Frederick Douglass link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

This activity should give you the opportunity to think carefully, using lessons from leadership practices and concepts across much of Western history, about how you can be a change agent. Change, many argue, is the essence of leadership. What can you do to enact change-oriented leadership in your life?