"The Promise of Policing, Journal of Urban Analysis, 5 (Spring, 1978), 203-221.
This article examines policy evaluation in the conduct of American policing at four levels of increasing
scope: at the level of performance (asking how well assigned tasks are being carried out); productivity
(asking about the consequences of those tasks); potential (asking how much policing could accomplish);
and alternatives (asking if it would be better to spend law enforcement money in some other way). The article
reviews recent research on policing relevant to each of these foci. Despite the importance of the police
function and the enormous budgetary implications of policy-making about municipal police, this research
literature is limited in quantity and quality. The issue of why there has been so little systematic policy analysis
in police work is addressed in some detail.
This article examines policy evaluation in the conduct of American policing at four levels of increasing
scope: at the level of performance (asking how well assigned tasks are being carried out); productivity
(asking about the consequences of those tasks); potential (asking how much policing could accomplish);
and alternatives (asking if it would be better to spend law enforcement money in some other way). The article
reviews recent research on policing relevant to each of these foci. Despite the importance of the police
function and the enormous budgetary implications of policy-making about municipal police, this research
literature is limited in quantity and quality. The issue of why there has been so little systematic policy analysis
in police work is addressed in some detail.
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