The Strategic Management of Police Resources
David M. Kennedy · 1993
I declined.' Police executives generally have responded by striving to enhance the efficiency of police operations and focus police resources on only the more serious calls. Computer-aided I dispatching and other information systems have been employed to make the most of the patrol force, and many departments no ,(blonger respond at all to nuisance calls or provide services like escorts and house checks that the public once took for granted. i Nonetheless, police in many cities find themselves more and more pressed, a problem recently greatly exacerbated--even in smaller communities-by unprecedented increases in drugs and violence.