An environment-adjusted evaluation of citizen satisfaction with local police effectiveness: Evidence from a conditional Data Envelopment Analysis approach |
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Authors: | Marijn Verschelde Nicky Rogge |
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Affiliation: | 1. SHERPPA – Department of General Economics, Universiteit Gent, Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium;2. Centre for Economics and Management (CEM), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels, Belgium;3. Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Hard data alone are not sufficient to evaluate local police effectiveness in the new age of community policing. Citizens can provide useful feedback regarding strengths and weaknesses of police operations. However, citizen satisfaction indicators typically fail to accurately convey the multidimensional nature of local policing and account for characteristics that are non-controllable for the local police departments. In this paper, we construct a measure of perceived effectiveness of community oriented police forces that accounts for both multidimensional aspects of local policing and exogenous influences. In specific, this paper suggests the use of a multivariate conditional, robust order-m version of a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis approach with no inputs. We show the potentiality of the method by constructing and analyzing perceived effectiveness indicators of local police forces in Belgium. The findings suggest that perceived police effectiveness is significantly conditioned by the demographic and socioeconomic environment. |
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Keywords: | Data Envelopment Analysis Local police effectiveness Citizen survey Conditional efficiency |
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