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Elinor Ostrom, Roger B. Parks, Gordon P. Whitaker, Do We Really Want to Consolidate Urban Police Forces? A Reappraisal of Some Old Assertions, Public Administration Review, Vol. 33, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1973), pp. 423-432
Остром et al. (Sat,) studied this question.