RAND Study Effectiveness

The RAND study sought to determine if differences in training, staffing, workload, or procedures had an effect on arrest or clearance rates. The research was a form of natural variation analysis, not an experimental design (Greenwood, P 1979).The finding that received all the attention was that rather than the embodiment of Sherlock Holmes, detectives were “glorified clerks for the district attorney” (Hoover, 2014). The researchers could find no linkage between investigative effort and clearance rates. Subsequent analysis and several evaluative settings have by and large confirmed the RAND results there is no clear relationship between investigative technique and clearance rates (Greenwood, P and Hoover, l 2014).

The major objective of the RAND study on criminal investigations to:

1. To describe the current investigative organization and its practices

2. To access the contribution that police investigation makes to achieve their criminal justice goals.

3. To ascertain the effectiveness of new technology and systems to enhance investigation performance.

4. To reveal how investigation effectiveness

A number of the police officials that were not ranked as detective was sympathetic to the study because it supported their own impression of how investigators functioned (Greenwood, P. 1979). A number of the chief of police were hostile because it was being used by other cities official as an excuse to cut the police (Greenwood, P 1979). There were others that refused to accept the findings because of limited number of departments the analysis research were drawn (Greenwood, P