@article{ref1,
title="Evaluation of alternative policies to combat false emergency calls",
journal="Evaluation and program planning",
year="2005",
author="Blackstone, Erwin A. and Buck, Andrew J. and Hakim, Simon",
volume="28",
number="2",
pages="233-242",
abstract="Ninety-four to ninety-nine percent of all police physical responses to burglar alarm activations are false. In 2000 police responded to 36 million false calls at an estimated cost of $1.8 billion. This paper presents and evaluates ten police policies for dealing with this waste of police resources. The paper then suggests that a public-private partnership will yield the highest net social benefits and avoids undesired cross subsidization. It further shows that implementation of a market oriented economic model where the police fulfill merely their public obligation is preferred to intuitive solutions that are often used by police.<p />",
language="",
issn="0149-7189",
doi="10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2004.09.004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2004.09.004"
}