1. Is it possible for officers to do an excellent job at the tasks they are assigned and be unproductive?
2. Do you recognize a potential problem with the detectives’ emphasis on prostitution stings?
3. Considering the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment, why not reduce the strength of patrol shifts?
4. How can Greenfield’s patrol strategy be changed to reduce preventive patrol and enhance community policing?
5. Is it possible that Officer Swanson may be more productive than his supervisors realize?

The Greenfield Police Department has changed its mission statement to reflect the city’s current service needs. The new mission emphasizes community-based, problem solving policing. As the new police chief, you have reviewed the performance of the different units within the department. The detective unit is primarily reactionary and investigates crime reports taken by the patrol unit. Detectives also conduct frequent prostitution stings at a local hotel, for which they have received several commendations. Records for the previous five years indicate no citizen complaints regarding prostitution. The only reports of prostitution were generated during the sting operations. The arrested prostitutes all worked for outcall services in other cities and traveled more than 20 miles to reach the hotel where they were arrested.