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From @nanovision's commment: > The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it
by red_admiral 3y ago
From @nanovision's commment:
> The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
This is a great example of not falling for Goodhart's law, actually. (When a metric becomes a measure ...)
Number of speeding tickets handed out and many other such measures are proxies, not the real purpose of (traffic) policing. If everyone follows the limit and drives safely, the number of tickets handed out ends up being zero.
- BizarroLand 3y agoIt's kind of like being an IT person. When your systems are properly funded, your team properly trained, and your leadership is properly leading, then it looks like you do nothing all day when what you actually do is properly monitoring and maintaining the systems, then people outside of the group ask, "What are we paying you for?". But when your systems are cobbled together, your team hired from craigslist ads and interviewed by an HR person who knows nothing of the job requirements, and your leadership hasn't seen a member on your team since 1988, and you literally spend your entire day running from location to location putting out fires, the people outside the group ask, "What are we paying you for?"