This story about nose-diving confidence in government workers connects to the one directly below. Keep banging those bureaucrat-bashing drums, defunding operations and railing about everyone’s tax dollars being wasted and sooner or later respect for government in general and its scapegoated workers in particular will take a dive.
Tag Archives: performance measurement
How to Run a Police Department
This is up here for benefit of one of my classes but is also is a very good look at the moment in time when the NYPD was transformed from a reactive department into a proactive force focused on relentlessly driving down crime.
How to Run a Police Department by George L. Kelling, City Journal Autumn 1995.
Law-Abiding Murderers
The New Orleans homicide rate leads the country, but the city does much better, relative to its big city peers, with other felony crimes. Some think this doesn’t compute.