Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, incorporated a classic enforcement mentality, based on the underlying assumption that a ruthless and efficient investigative and enforcement capability would produce compliance through the mechanisms of deterrence. In these fields, and perhaps in many other enforcement or compliance oriented professions, Sparrow believes the traditional enforcement approach is under stress. There are too many...
Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultur...
Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Newport News, Virginia, and London, this important book assesses what can be done by enterprising police chiefs and progressive communities to combat the crime and violence that currently engulf our cities.
Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Newport...
This is an explanation of how thieves exploit the U.S. health system and steal more than $100 billion each year. Fraud and abuse bleeds more than 100 billion dollars each year out of the U.S. health system. This detailed examination shows the problem is worse than almost anyone knows, mostly invisible, and still far from controlled. Sparrow reveals that current control systems fail by presenting fraud perpetrators with a safe, easy-to-hit target: fully automated check-printing systems, which only require thieves to bill correctly, regardless of whether or not any medical service is provided....
This is an explanation of how thieves exploit the U.S. health system and steal more than $100 billion each year. Fraud and abuse bleeds more than 100 ...
Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, incorporated a classic enforcement mentality, based on the underlying assumption that a ruthless and efficient investigative and enforcement capability would produce compliance through the mechanisms of deterrence. In these fields, and perhaps in many other enforcement or compliance oriented professions, Sparrow believes the traditional enforcement approach is under stress. There are too many...
Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultur...
The current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform.
"Sparrow surely is right to condemn policing directed only at crime rates rather than community satisfaction." -The New York Times Book Review
In the past two years, America has witnessed incendiary milestones in the poor relations between police and the African-American community: Ferguson, Baltimore, and more recently Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas.
Malcolm Sparrow, who teaches at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is a former British police detective, argues that...
The current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform.
"Sparrow surely is right to condemn policing directed only at ...
