Plain Talk<br>Promoting Public Safety Requires Informed Decisions
Police chiefs and sheriffs are required to make decisions every day about what must be done to protect and service their community. In order to make these critical decisions, they need the most current information available in order to analyze and integrate the best knowledge into their decision making process.
In the past two years, our industry has realized that there is very little serious scholarly research and academic work relating to how our alarm systems and service work in relationship to public safety. In the absence of serious study, we have been victimized by anecdotes and rhetoric that have no basis in fact. Further, we found that there is very little credible research available for those making decisions on these very serious public safety policy issues.