Police Cooperation and Performance: The Greater St. Louis Interlocal Experience
ISBN-13:
9780271002217
ISBN-10:
0271002212
Author:
James C. McDavid
Publication date:
1980
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Format:
Paperback
128 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780271002217
ISBN-10:
0271002212
Author:
James C. McDavid
Publication date:
1980
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Format:
Paperback
128 pages
Summary
Police Cooperation and Performance: The Greater St. Louis Interlocal Experience (ISBN-13: 9780271002217 and ISBN-10: 0271002212), written by authors
James C. McDavid, was published by Penn State University Press in 1980.
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The first examination of linkages between interlocal cooperation and performance indicators, this study goes to the heart of the debate between proponents of municipal consolidation and proponents of polycentric arrangements. Can dozens of separate police departments in a metropolitan area, the author asks, provide a high quality of service while relying on voluntary cooperation? His answer for the municipal police departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area is generally affirmative.After studying all available printed material on how police cooperation in Greater St. Louis is supposed to work, Dr. McDavid secured descriptions of actual practice from police officers ranging from patrolmen to district captains. His study also includes measures of performance based on interviews with 2,000 residents of the various municipalities and the police officers serving them. His findings are reported in detail, as is his methodology.Two case studies of voluntary cooperation in action complement the quantitative cross-sectional analysis. One deals with the development of an area-wide Major Case Squad and focuses on a murder hold-up solved cooperatively. The other traces the development of the Board of Governors, a voluntary policy-coordinating organization.The book's introduction relates the Greater St. Louis experience to studies of police in eighty metropolitan areas conducted by Indiana University and the University of North Carolina. The conclusion places Dr. McDavid's study in perspective, linking it to a nationwide effort to analyze and design institutional arrangements for the production of public services.
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