Editing The Police (section)

==Musical style==
The Police started as a [[punk rock]] band, but soon incorporated [[reggae]], pop and [[new wave music|new wave]] elements to their sound. In his retrospective assessment, [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] argues that the notion of the Police as a punk rock band was true only "in the loosest sense of the term". He states the band's "nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky" and had a "punk spirit" but it "wasn't necessarily punk".<ref name="allmusic.com">{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url ={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5163/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=The Police |website=AllMusic |access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref> A "[[power trio]]",<ref name=PolicePowerTrioArticle>{{cite news |last=Clark |first=Dick |title=The Police: An Arresting Power Trio |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PyhIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1317,1623693&dq=allintext:+power-trio+the+who&hl=en |access-date=2 June 2013 |newspaper=Milwaukee Record-Journal |date=15 July 1983 |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414082326/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PyhIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1317,1623693&dq=allintext:+power-trio+the+who&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> the Police are also known as a new wave<ref name=Scripps-Howard>{{cite web |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1hshAAAAIBAJ&pg=5653,8995145&dq=squeeze+second-british-invasion&hl=en |title = Culture Club, Police, Duran Duran lead Second Invasion Scripps-Howard News Service printed by The Pittsburgh Press October&nbsp;31, 1984 |access-date = 15 May 2011 |archive-date = 28 August 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210828045559/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1hshAAAAIBAJ&pg=5653%2C8995145&dq=squeeze+second-british-invasion&hl=en |url-status = live }}</ref> and [[post-punk]] band,<ref>{{cite book |first=MaryAnn|last=Janosik|year=2006|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: The video generation, 1981–1990|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood Press]]|isbn=978-0-3133-2943-2|page=76}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-first=John H. |editor-last=Beck|year=2013|title=Encyclopedia of Percussion|publisher=[[Routledge]]|edition=2nd|isbn=978-0-415-97123-2|page=344}}</ref> with many songs falling in the [[Reggae fusion|reggae-fusion]] genre.<ref name="allmusic.com"/>