In the last twenty years there have been many different attempts to change how police supervisors determine if subordinates are meeting necessary production standards. The methodology or type of productions standards used can have direct effect on a department’s ability to maintain oversight of the officers it employees, maintain community confidence it its ability to protect and serve, and finally to catch prosecute those who chose to violate the laws of the community. The trend with most police administrators is to judge a department’s or even a single officer’s success through purely statistical measures. Specifically, the use of the rise or fall of crime rates, clearance rates of cases, response times to calls for service, and general enforcement productivity, (i.e. Arrests, citations, reports written, and calls for service cleared). These measuring tools have been used, as the sole source, to determine the overall success or failure, of both the officer and the entire department. While these measuring devices should not be completely abandoned by police agencies, there importance should be re-evaluated. The goal of this paper is to show that statistical measures should never be the sole method of judging success. Instead, overall community satisfaction, officer investment in the community, community involvement in problem solving, officer skill level and proper use of discretion, and basic understand of the primary mission of keeping the peace, should be the main methodology of supervisors and departments to determine officer and department success. This paper will first document some of the failures that have occurred when overreliance of statistics and hard numbers was the only measuring tool for officer production and officer success. Secondly, the use of a broader based metric will be proposed that when used with statistical information will lead to a more effect department and satisfied community. This type of approach will have a direct effect on how police commanders lead police officers and how they function within the community.