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performance evaluation of police departments  

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  • Among other things, police departments can be seen as producing organizations: They take resources from their environment, and they use those resources to produce results. In general, citizens give police departments two key resources they need to operate: money and the authority of the state. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Performance Evaluation of Police Departments]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-H6C1L1H1-3

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