LinkedIn June 10, 2015 12 Comments

Worth a Look: Did Performance Measurement Cause America’s Police Problem?

Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene recently published an interesting article in Governing titled Did Performance Measurement Cause America’s Police Problem? The article is definitely worth a few minutes to read.   Sparrow points out that the two most commonly used measures of police work — crime reduction and enforcement productivity “fail to reflect the very best […]

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David Lyons June 2, 2015 13 Comments

Will the Proliferation of Police Video Finally End Miranda?

Wearable video, or ‘body cams’, is certainly the new hot topic in policing these days. For that matter, it’s all over the public and political forums as well. Many agencies will start using them soon if they have not all ready; ink wet on policies that are sure to go through several changes before the […]

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