This study examines the MANAGER (Management and
Accountability through Geographic
Review) management model of the Arlington (Texas)
Police Department. The study shows that MANAGER has
the ability to incorporate the facilitative elements
of a learning organization. The institutional tools,
crime statistics, crime maps, hot spots, and crime
analysis, organizational design through geographic
policing, and the periodic local and central
meetings are major elements of MANAGER in building a
learning organization. A multi-dimensional survey of
the APDs organizational performance is...