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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON POLICE PATTERN OR PRACTICE LITIGATION: A 10-YEAR ASSESSMENT
On February 10-11, 2005 a conference was held in Washington, DC devoted to police pattern or practice litigation. The conference involved about 70 invited participants and was cosponsored by the Police Professionalism Initiative (PPI) of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). Funding was provided by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
Discussions at the conference identified ten major themes related to pattern or practice litigation. It is important to recognize that these discussions were based on the assumption that the benefits derived from pattern or practice litigation apply only when all other measures have failed.
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Mark Moore outlines seven dimensions of police performance that should be measured when determining the "value" in public policing. He summarizes the kinds of investments police departments could make in their measurement systems, offers views about the most valuable of those investments, and outlines a plan for incrementally improving police performance measurement.
This paper is a companion to PERF's 2002 publication Recognizing Value in Policing:The Challenge of Measuring Police Performance.
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