Note
"This paper is a companion to the 2002 publication Recognizing Value in Policing: The Challenge of Measuring Police Performance, by Mark Moore with David Thacher, Andrea Dodge and Tobias Moore."
Summary
"To hold the police effectively accountable, then, citizens, taxpayers, and their elected representatives want and need something analogous to the private sector’s famed “bottom line.” They need some relatively simple and accurate ways of numerically summarizing the accomplishments of the police, and the price they are paying to produce the observed results. The purpose of this paper is to take a step toward accomplishing this goal. [The author's] aim is to identify the appropriate terms in which the police should be held accountable, and to suggest some measures that would allow citizens to do so effectively. In this, [Moore is] trying to take both inspiration and technical instruction from how the private sector makes organizations accountable to their shareholders and owners."--Page 8.