Policing: An International Journal: Volume 37 Issue 1

Support for community policing in India and the US: an exploratory study among college students

While there is a growing body of studies on the people's views of community policing, there have been a very few cross-national studies. The purpose of this paper is to compare…

Community support for license plate recognition

Although the use of license plate recognition (LPR) technology by police is becoming increasingly common, no empirical studies have examined the legal or legitimacy implications…

An integrated theory for the practical application of “governance-based policing”

This paper aims to reconcile the different theoretical approaches of the next stage of community policing – third-party policing, post-modern policing, community-based policing…

Policing firearm violence: Examining space-time associations between shootings and firearm arrests to gauge police responsiveness

The purpose of this paper is to generate information about the contours of police responsiveness, focussing on how quickly and precisely police make firearm arrests after a…

How are police doing in combating crime? An exploratory study of efficiency analysis of the Policía Nacional Civil in Guatemala

In almost all modern societies, police forces are at the forefront of ongoing activities to reduce and prevent crime. Both in practice and in popular belief, police forces are the…

Improving highway accident management through patrol beat scheduling

The purpose of this paper is to improve the efficiency of accident management from the angle of reducing highway accident response times while taking into account total daily work…

Police chief leadership: styles and effectiveness

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership styles of police chiefs and how these styles related to demographic, personality, and effectiveness.

Police-public interactions: a grid-group cultural theory perspective

The police culture literature suggests that police officers’ attitude towards the public is characterised by suspicion and an “us-vs-them” mentality. It also refers to the moral…

Base rates and Bayes’ Theorem for decision support

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and demonstrate “best practices” for creating quantitative behavioural investigative advice (i.e. statements to assist police with…

Differing services, rising expectations, and greater demands: Patterns in variations of police-public dynamics across areas with conventional and community policing in India

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that impact assessment of police performance across the two types of policing methods, and explains the differing police public…

Race, poverty, and the traffic ticket cycle: Exploring the situational context of the application of police discretion

Through systematic observation of police decision-making behavior, the aim of this paper is to investigate what factors differentiate between citizens who receive a warning vs a…

Assessing the success factors of organized crime groups: Intelligence challenges for strategic thinking

Expert assessment of organized crime (OC) group capabilities is often the basis for national threat assessments; it is rare, however, for variations in collective expert opinions…

Managing the Investigative Unit, 2nd ed.

Turnover, voluntary turnover, and organizational performance: evidence from municipal police departments

Lessons for policing from Moneyball: the views of police managers - a research note

Editorial

RAND Center on Quality Policing

Articulating the dynamic police staffing challenge: an examination of supply and demand