ICPSR Metadata record for Police-Public Contact Survey, 2002 [United States] ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Police-Public Contact Survey, 2002 [United States] United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-08-18 4273 doi://10.3886/ICPSR04273.v1
The Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS), was designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to document contacts between police and the public that culminated in police using force. The 2002 survey was conducted as a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). To date, the PPCS has been conducted three times by BJS. The first survey -- described in the BJS publication, "Police Use of Force: Collection of National Data" (NCJ 165040) -- documented levels of contacts with police during 1996. The second survey -- described in "Contacts Between Police and the Public: Findings from the 1999 National Survey" (NCJ 184957) -- recorded police-citizen contacts in 1999. These data are archived in POLICE-PUBLIC CONTACT SURVEY, 1999: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 3151). The third survey -- described here under the title "Contacts Between Police and the Public: Findings From the 2002 National Survey" (NCJ 207845) -- covered interactions between police and the public in 2002. The results of this survey are contained in this data collection.
 UniverseScheme04273 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00095. Organization04273_1 ICPSR.XVII.E RCMD.I NACJD.IX police citizen interactions police community relations police officers police use of force public interest public opinion United States 2002 2002 individuals survey data Respondents aged 16 and older to the National Crime Victimization Survey during the last six months of 2002. The universe of the NCVS is all persons in the United States aged 12 and older. Stratified multistage cluster sample. 2002-07-01 2002-12-31

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