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expected that knowledge of these optimal policies will have implications for the allocation of money between police, courts and …
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--the design of service areas for police mobile units. Estimates of the performance of alternative designs are given by existing … evaluated according to the preferences for efficiency and equality of service of three interest groups: citizens, police, and …
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A computer program has been designed for specifying the number of police patrol cars that should be on duty in each …
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assumed that Sethi's concave thief, i.e., a risk-averter, plays against the police, whose objective function incorporates … the case in Sethi's model) but also by the instrumental variable of the police, namely its rate of law enforcement. Our … police increases monotonically whereas for the Nash-optimal pilfering rate three cases may be characterized in which increase …
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This paper presents an algorithm for deploying a crime directed patrol force. The optimization problem is formulated as the allocation of N patrol among R high crime regions so as to maximize the weighted probability of a patrol intercept of a crime. The algorithm has full sensitivity analysis...
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In many cities, a substantial fraction of calls for police service require more than one patrol car. We compare Green …
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One of the primary concerns of urban police departments is the effective use of patrol cars. In large cities, police … assigned to patrol cars typically account for more than 50% of total police manpower and their allocation has become … particularly crucial in light of recent fiscal cutbacks. The police patrol system is a complex multi-server queueing system, and …
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Before designing a computer program for allocating police patrol cars by time and geography, a review was undertaken of …
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This paper develops a method for comparing the cost effectiveness of two ways of improving the fire protection in a community: the installation of detection-alarm systems (DAS) in dwellings and the addition of fire companies. The method is developed from a number of relatively simple models and...
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