In this paper we study the relationship between costs, input prices and activity levels in a sample of medium sized, city police departments for the years 1968, 69, 71 and 73. Our focus is on determining the functional structure of law enforcement production technology

In this note we correct several misunderstandings which have arisen since publication of our earlier paper “Law Enforcement Agencies as Multiproduct firms: An Econometric Investigation of Production Costs.” These misconceptions arise regularly in empirical applications of economic theory to...