A Community Policing Program Began in an Entertainment Area in a Large

question 54

Multiple Choice

A community policing program began in an entertainment area in a large metropolitan area.City leaders are interested to see if the change in policing strategy has reduced the number of crimes and has asked faculty from a local university to complete a study.What type of evaluation would be best?

• A) interrupted time-series
• B) ex-post evaluation
• C) non-equivalent groups
• D) class experiment

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Definitions:

Process Mean

The average value of a set of measurements from a process, indicating its central tendency or typical performance.

Average Run Length

In statistical quality control, it is the average number of samples that must be taken before a change in the status of a process is detected.

Type I Error

The improper denial of a genuine null hypothesis, also identified as a "false positive."

Randomly Occurring

Events or phenomena that happen without a predictable pattern, order, or reason.