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In 2005, Jean-Paul Brodeur suggested that police reform is assumed to proceed through similar stages and at a similar pace across policing. Brodeur’s argument, however, applies best to reforms in the paradigm of policing, such as community policing (Zhao, Lovrich, & Thurman, 1999) or intelligenceled policing (Carter & Phillips, 2013). Many reforms or improvements in policing, however, occur in environments or venues that do not apply at the paradigm level; yet, they should be recognized for their potential application across policing. These police reforms may be found throughout policing and applied in an “? la carte” fashion. That is, many police departments may find that the different reforms or improvements attempted in other police agencies might also be applied in their jurisdiction. Some police reforms, while originally local in nature, receive broad recognition and are then diffused across and integrated into many other police agencies. For example, COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics) was promoted by William Bratton; the program received public recognition and awards, and was diffused across policing through these mechanisms. Unfortunately, many police reforms that might be useful to a broad number of police agencies do not have the benefit of a well-recognized and supportive leader, government backing, or other social system. These reforms and programs do not follow the normal patterns of diffusion (see Gayadeen & Phillips, 2014; Phillips & Gayadeen, 2014); thus, their existence and application may be unknown to most other police agencies. In addition, some “older” policing reforms have had broad interest in the past, but their importance to police agencies has waned or the topics have been minimized in the scholarship for many years. When police agencies reexamine the possibility of implementing older reforms, the attempts are often lost among the new or “trendy” police reforms that are currently on the front stage of policing.