Bearfield, Maranto and Wolf (2020) advise policy-makers to measure policing outcomes using a metric that includes rates of homicide, police-related civilian deaths (PRCD) , and poverty. They present such an index, which they call the Police Performance Index (PPI). But alternative functional forms that are equally plausible can lead to different rankings of police departments, and therefore different policy conclusions. My comment presents one such alternative index, under which changes in police-related civilian deaths have a greater potential effect on a city’s ranking: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/r8yst
Tag: David S. Reed
Webinar on Promoting Ethical Conduct in Organizations
The ASPA Section on Democracy and Social Justice webinar on Promoting Ethical Conduct in Organizations is now on YouTube. It was great serving as a panelist. https://youtu.be/1U4lYwL0p5Q
Our how-to is a top 10 download on SSRN
My how-to on Public Administration Practitioners at Academic Conferences hit SSRN’s top 10 download list for PSN Educator: Public Administration. I hope it encourages more of us practitioners to engage with research. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2765800
Promoting Ethical Conduct in Organizations
I’m excited to be on the panel for the webinar on Promoting Ethical Conduct in Organizations, organized by the ASPA Section on Democracy and Social Justice. It will be Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 1:00 PM EDT. Zoom in and join us! https://lu.ma/7jrra194
Our paper gets cited: Increasing Citizen Engagement and Access to Information
David Reed’s paper, Technology: Increasing Citizen Engagement and Access to Information, has been downloaded from SocArXiv over 600 times, and has been cited in two works listed in Google Scholar. The paper’s recommendations are:
- Welcome the Civic Hackers
- Eat Your Own Dog Food
- Don’t Panic about Guerrilla Government
The paper is at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hws4f/
Resources for teaching: Non-Hierarchical Ethical Conduct by Public Sector Workers
David Reed will be a panelist for the ASPA DSJ webinar on Promoting Ethical Conduct in Organizations, on September 22, 2020. The annotated list of resources that he will be sharing at the webinar is at Non-Hierarchical Ethical Conduct^J for ASPA DSJ webinar
Project on Annotated Work Instructions
Our open source project on Annotated Work Instructions is at
https://groups.google.com/a/pubadmin.org/forum/#!forum/annotated-work-instructions
It’s under construction now, but we welcome anybody who wants to participate.
Dear Bureaucrat: The advice column for people who work in the public sector
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