The Annual Police Report
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9761450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L S Timmerman (National Institute of Public Administration), Linda Timmerman (National Academy of Public Administration, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1929 |
| Volume | 146 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-103 |
| Publication date | 1929-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271622914600109 |
| OpenAlex | W2056473228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
TO most police administrators, preparing and publishing the annual report has been a burdensome duty required by law. In the past, and to a large extent at the present time, these officials have been content to follow traditional lines, modeling their reports after those of their predecessors and paying no particular attention to the quality or the usefulness of the product. As a direct and unfortunate result of this apathy, the annual report of police departments has fallen into disrepute. It has become an edition of little or no importance to be filed away in the archives of public offices, to be read by some citizens only in case of direct personal interest and by most citizens not at all. Official disregard for the annual police report has grown to such an extent that approximately fifty per cent of the cities of over thirty thousand inhabitants do not now print a report for distribution. The reports of such departments find their way, in abbreviated form only, into the municipal report of the city in question and consequently reach the eyes of an extremely limited number of people. Some other police departments fail to report promptly so that when their report is published, it is of historical value only
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |