Exam 10: Measuring Police Performance

Valid measures correctly capture the concept under consideration.

______________measures consider the quantity of the service delivered, such as number of arrests, total dollars collected in seized assets, and number of cases resulting in conviction.

Research has found that although community policing departments emphasized a different level of service delivery and performance evaluation, these changes were yet to be reflected in their performance appraisal instruments.

Studies that examined the relationship between personality traits and job performance consistently found that _________________ was a predictor of job performance across all occupational categories.

The performance of public agencies is typically focused on all of the following EXCEPT:

Police managers are responsible for the evaluation of all of the following EXCEPT:

What are the issues in the evaluation of strategy? Which is most important, and why?

Selective reporting by victims can influence the accuracy of crime rates.

Individual performance appraisals are used to provide data for all of the following EXCEPT:

Police performance measures are typically used to determine all the following EXCEPT:

A target is the part of a performance measure that establishes the desired level to be reached in a defined time period.

What are the difficulties in measuring the crime rate, and how can they be addressed?

What is the purpose of individual performance measurement, and how can it be improved?

Macro measures are broad indicators of effectiveness based on the subjective reflection of impressions of police activities.

Traditionally, police performance measures have been based on all of the following EXCEPT: