The Police Snapshot offers a comprehensive analysis of Police spending in your community. Taken from the Municipal Yardstick to form a stand alone report, its approximately 80 pages dissect all aspects of your community’s police department, including:
  • A Breakdown of the Total Budget
  • Departmental Spending
  • Staffing
  • Compensation, broken down by
  • Vacation, Holiday, Sick Leave and Personal Leave
  • Health Insurance Coverage
  • Crime Statistics
The detailed and granular analysis in the Police Snapshot allows a police chief, municipal official or union representative to analyze the primary cost drivers, staffing and salaries, or examine police outcomes. In short, it is an ideal tool to help a policy makers evaluate your community’s police department.

In each case, the Police Snapshot utilizes our proprietary Benchmark Peer Group methodology. The Police Snapshot compares your community against its Benchmark Peer Group, the twenty most similar communities in Massachusetts derived by analyzing fifteen key socio-economic, demographic and geographic attributes.

Please note that the Police Snapshot is a dynamic report. If there are areas that you are particularly interested in, but you do not feel are covered by the report, please contact us and we would be happy to work with you to design exactly the analysis required by your community.