Police management and quotas: Governance in the CompStat Era

Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 543-581

  Bronstein, Nathaniel ^a  

^a The Earth Institute at Columbia University   (United States)

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EID: 84925874188     PISSN: 00101923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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