The Blog that Explores the Application of Business Administration and Management Principles for the Policing Industry
Where We Were… Well, over 20 years ago, I reported to a large auditorium to take a written test for the position of a police recruit. The auditorium was filled with hundreds (and I mean hundreds, nearing 1000) of other applicants taking the same test. Months later when I was selected, I was part of a […]
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 […]