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Measurement and determinants of efficiency in the municipal police service

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the police service in Spanish municipalities with a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants. Using Data Envelopment Analysis, we obtain the efficiency levels and the targets that the input and outputs have to reach to be efficient in the provision of the police service. Next, and based on the
Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba, María-Dolores Guillamón, Bernardino Benito   +2 more
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Professional Sports Events and Public Spending: Evidence from Municipal Police Budgets

Journal of Sports Economics, 2022
Prior evidence reveals a causal relationship between sporting events and crime. If sporting events increase crime, they also increase public spending on policing.
Hyunwoong Pyun, B. Humphreys, Umair Khalil   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Going Local: Do Consent Decrees and Other Forms of Federal Intervention in Municipal Police Departments Reduce Police Killings?

Justice quarterly, 2020
Despite calls for police reform to address lethal use of force, there has been little empirical evaluation of consent decrees—settlement agreements that address police departments’ use of force policies and practice.
Li Sian Goh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social media and community-oriented policing: examining the organizational image construction of municipal police on Twitter and Facebook

, 2020
Municipal police departments across the United States are under pressure to strengthen relationships with the communities they serve, reinvigorating a discussion about enhancing the community orientation of the police.
Lauren Mayes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

municipal police costs and efficiency

Economia dei Servizi, 2013
Within the widening research area of efficiency measurements of non-marketed public services, this paper deals with the services provided by Municipal police and the problem posed by the presence of non-discretionary variables. If there are factors and-or outputs that do not come under public managers' discretion, then conventional efficiency ...
Patrizii Vincenzo, Resce Giuliano
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Organizational Correlates of Technology Adoption in Municipal U.S. Police Departments

International Journal of Police Science
This paper examines the organizational and environmental correlates of the adoption of various technologies among 951 municipal police departments in the United States.
Matthew Teti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Municipal Police Administration

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1929
T HE r61le of police in modern society steadily tends to become more difficult. Viewing the rudimentary police organizations of a little more than a century ago, one is filled with wonder that their work was not more defective than it actually proved to be. There seems to be only one satisfactory explanation.
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Exploring Barriers to Researching the Economics of Municipal Policing [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2019
Using Ontario municipal expenditure and access to various technologies as an entry point, this article identifies several barriers to and limitations of studying the economics of policing in Canada. We explore several data sources, including the Police Administration Survey, Statistics Canada Census Program, the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, and ...
Victoria A. Sytsma, Erick Laming
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Law Enforcement and the Depiction of Minorities and Women on Social Media: A Review of Municipal Police Department Facebook Pictures

Race and Justice, 2018
There is a growing area of research today focusing on how the demographics of law enforcement officers and criminals are depicted. This research has concentrated on portrayals by the media, popular culture, criminal justice textbooks, training manuals ...
Brion Sever, Eric Elg, Sydney T. Ellis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Legal Status of Municipal Police Employee Organizations

ILR Review, 1970
Evaluates the legal status of municipal police employee organizations and discusses the assumptions on which public policy in this area is founded. History of public policy; Overview of police employee organizations by city size; Bargaining activities of police employee organizations. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Hervey A. Juris, Kay B. Hutchison
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