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Caption title.
"Issues in policing"--At head of title.
"Center on Quality Policing, a RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment Center"--At head of page 1.
Document number: OP-279-ISEC.
Summary
"This paper summarizes existing high-quality academic research on the cost of crime and the effectiveness of police in preventing crime. It serves as a bridge to help policymakers understand what the current social-science literature can tell them about the value of investments in police. As such, it translates what is in the social-science literature, providing nontechnical descriptions that highlight the approaches and limitations of existing studies. It then demonstrates a method for comparing the costs of police personnel with the expected benefits generated by those police in terms of reduced crime; it does so by using two real-world proposals, one involving force expansion and one involving force reduction, to illustrate the process."--Page 1.