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Title: Defend or deny the statement, "Measurables absent of markers are meaningless."
Post by: 123654777 on Jul 31, 2020

Question 1

Traditional policing targets perpetrators being reformed and released back into the community.
◦ true
◦ false

Question 2

Defend or deny the statement, "Measurables absent of markers are meaningless."

Title: Defend or deny the statement, "Measurables absent of markers are meaningless."
Post by: kiamars2010 on Jul 31, 2020

Answer 1

false

Answer 2

The answer should include the following points:

• In defense of the statement, beyond merely identifying measurables, police departments need to couple the measurables with markers. For example, a city's homicide rate is a measurable, but it needs a marker like "less than 1 homicide per 100,000 population" to be meaningful-and to get managed.


• Measurement per se is interesting, but inserting markers is at once challenging and invariably grabs the attention of all police managers.


• Denial of the statement is not supported by the text, although it might be noted that both measurables and markers are meaningless unless, once identified, they're actually acted upon.