NUNN, Samuel <br/><br/>
Police information technology :  assessing the effects of computerization on urban police functions 

 - Malden, MA :  Blackwell Publishers,  mar./apr.2001 
<br/><br/> Municipal police agencies are major users of information technology, and much remains to be learned about the effects of computerization on police operations. This article exemines computerization in 188 municipal police agencies in 1993 in cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Relationships among computer hardware, police-file computerization, and police functions are examined. Cities are categorized as low, medium, and high levels of computerization to uncover differences in expenditures an police-officer allocation. Personal computers and mainframes supported file computerization of management and administration,throughtput, and crime evidence. Management and adminstration files influenced computerization of police functions, particularly for management and crime solutions. Highly computerized cities reported larger shares of employees in tecnhical positions, spent more per capita, and reported fewer officers per capita than cities with lower computerization levels. These realtionships held after controlling for independent influences such as density, fiscal capacity, crime levels, and population