According to the Old Concept, how is police performance primarily measured?

In traditional perspectives on policing, performance measurement often focused on quantifiable outputs such as the number of arrests made. This approach emphasizes a more reactive stance on law enforcement, where the effectiveness of police work was judged largely by the volume of police activity, which included arrests, citations, and other similar metrics. The underlying assumption was that a higher number of arrests indicated a more active and effective police department. This view of performance, known as the Old Concept, prioritizes statistical outputs as benchmarks for success, presenting a somewhat simplistic interpretation of police effectiveness.

In contrast, modern approaches have begun to incorporate broader measures of success such as community satisfaction and crime prevention tactics, focusing more on the quality of police-community relationships and overall public safety outcomes rather than just raw activity numbers.