Waegal’s article “Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work” discusses the way detectives handle their large volume of cases. Detectives are guided and constrained by two organizational standards, submitting investigative reports and producing arrests. Thereby a detective will organize his casework and his time minimizing the amount of work while maximizing the number of cases he is able to complete through arrest. When a detective is assigned a case, there are several expectations in place set by the organization. The first encompasses written reports. Although the detectives are required to submit a report the first day summarizing the interview with the victim, this deadline is often overlooked by superiors. The second deadline,
