2. WHAT POLICE DEPARTMENTS REPORT

3. Last class Police authorizing environment Demands are:  More/less consistent  More/less persistent  More/less coherent

4. The Organizational Scoreboard What do police generally report to overseers? (1) Resources: expenditures and employees (2) Activities: UCR crimes, arrests, etc.  What PDs report (and how) varies quite a bit across locations  Police have tremendous discretion in how transparent to make their organizations

5. Corporate Reporting How are private businesses expected to report?  On a quarterly basis  Consistently based on regulations and agreed upon best practices  Reports are certified by an independent third party  Nothing close to this in public policing

6. Current reporting practices in policing Key distinctions: (1) Who produced/certified the report  Police, outside auditor, external reviewer (2) Scope/Coverage  Organization or subunit  Annual reports/Management reports  Strategic plans

7. Annual Reports Those by police: What performance measures are represented?  Levels of crime and arrests  Other values not typically reported Those by outside auditors: What performance measures are represented?  Use of authority What does this suggest?  Police report on accomplishments, but do not own up to the costs they impose in doing so.

8. Strategic Reports What performance measures are represented?  Other values not in annual reports such as citizen satisfaction  Investments to transform organizations  These reports can more measures of value, as PDs begin to adopt community policing models of operation

9. What Should PDs Report? Issues:  Authorizing environment is very complex and dynamic, demanding different things at different times.  Police performance on varying dimensions of value can be difficult to measure  PDs aren’t usually measuring key dimensions of value beyond crime control

10. Table 10 Performance DimensionsIndicators Reduce victimizationCrime/victimization rates Call offenders to accountClearance/conviction rates Reduce fear/enhance securityLevels of change in fear/self-defense Guarantee safety in public placesTraffic injuries, property values, utilization of public spaces Financial resourcesCost per citizen, deployment efficiency, budget compliance, overtime, etc Authority resourcesCitizen complaints, police shootings, civil liability suits Satisfy customer demands/achieve legitimacy Citizen satisfaction, response times, perceived fairness Next question: How do we get here?

11. Next Class Journal 2 due  Should contain 7 entries  Chapters 7-9 can be a single entry