POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Operations Research, Sunk Costs, Satisficing
5 May 2018
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-Evaluate alternative strategies-feas- accept- & suitability & operational analysis
-Feasibility
-Can the department implement the strategy?
-Acceptability
-Will the strategy be accepted by the community and
government?
-Suitable
-Does it accomplish the desired goal?
-Operational analysis
-Determine or anticipate outcomes that may be produced if the
strategy is implemented
-Select a strategy
-Then must be implemented
-It is up to unit commanders and their supervisors to implement them
-In doing so, the unit commanders engage in operational planning
-397-401
-Contingency Planning
-A plan the department develops for implementation when a critical incident occurs
-Contingency Planning- what if
-Operations planning
-Criticisms and challenges- “atisfiig
-395-403
-Variables affecting decision making
-Many variables were identified that exert influence on managers during the decision
making process
-Outside pressures – laws, people, conditions
-Laws, people, and conditions that impose boundaries on the decision maker
-Sunk costs
-Resources previously committed to a program that make it impossible for the
department to enact changes in current procedures or operational policy
-Personalities
-Refers to that fact that a deisio aker’s idiosyrasies, iases, ad strog
feelings can taint decisions
-Outside reference group influence
-Each individual or group attempts to mold public policy
-Police executives constantly must deal with these pressures, but while
welcoming their input, chiefs must keep the department on a path that best
addresses the problem and concerns of the entire community
-403-405
-LE budgets broadly
-80-90% of costs are personal
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Document Summary
Evaluate alternative strategies-feas- accept- & suitability & operational analysis. Determine or anticipate outcomes that may be produced if the strategy is implemented. It is up to unit commanders and their supervisors to implement them. In doing so, the unit commanders engage in operational planning. A plan the department develops for implementation when a critical incident occurs. Many variables were identified that exert influence on managers during the decision making process. Laws, people, and conditions that impose boundaries on the decision maker. Resources previously committed to a program that make it impossible for the department to enact changes in current procedures or operational policy. Refers to that fact that a de(cid:272)isio(cid:374) (cid:373)aker"s idiosy(cid:374)(cid:272)rasies, (cid:271)iases, a(cid:374)d stro(cid:374)g feelings can taint decisions. Each individual or group attempts to mold public policy. Police executives constantly must deal with these pressures, but while welcoming their input, chiefs must keep the department on a path that best addresses the problem and concerns of the entire community.
