Evaluation of the Impact of Innovative Policing Programs on Social Disorder in Seven Cities in the United States, 1983-1990
This study was designed to permit a "meta-evaluation" of
 the impact of alternative policing programs on social disorder.
 Examples of social disorder include bands of teenagers deserting
 school and congregating on street corners, solicitation by prostitutes
 and panhandlers, public drinking, vandalism, verbal …