When patrol officers inquire to management about the hiring of additional officers to deal with the increased calls for service, they are usually greeted with catch phrases such as "do more with less" and "work smarter, not harder." Many police administrators like to proclaim these platitudes as the answer to the department's increasing workloads and dwindling resources.
Increased calls for service, insufficient manpower, rising crime levels, and people's perceptions that when crime touches them, each police department should drop everything else and dedicate 100% of its resources into solving their problem first further aggravate the situation of insufficient …