TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Evaluation of alternative policies to combat false emergency calls
JO  - Evaluation and program planning
A1  - Blackstone, Erwin A.
A1  - Buck, Andrew J.
A1  - Hakim, Simon
SP  - 233
EP  - 242
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0149-7189
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2004.09.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -