nmm 22 4500 ICPSR06482 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130524s1995 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR06482 MiAaI MiAaI Drugs and Police Response [electronic resource] Survey of Public Housing Residents in Denver, Colorado, 1989-1990 Sampson O. Annan , Wesley G. Skogan 1995-08-16 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1995 ICPSR 6482 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-24. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. This data collection is the result of an evaluation of the NEPHU program, conducted by the Police Foundation under the sponsorship of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). In August 1989, the Bureau of Justice Assistance supported a grant in Denver, Colorado, to establish a special Narcotics Enforcement in Public Housing Unit (NEPHU) within the Denver Police Department. The goal of the Denver NEPHU was to reduce the availability of narcotics in and around the city's public housing areas by increasing drug arrests. NEPHU's six full-time officers made investigations and gathered intelligence leading to on-street arrests and search warrants. The unit also operated a special telephone Drug Hotline and met regularly with tenant councils in the developments to improve community relations. The program worked in cooperation with the Denver Housing Authority and the uniformed patrol division of the Denver Police Department, which increased levels of uniformed patrols to maintain high visibility in the project areas to deter conventional crime. Using a panel design, survey interviews were conducted with residents in the Quigg Newton and Curtis Park public housing units, focusing on events that occurred during the past six months. Respondents were interviewed during three time periods to examine the onset and persistence of any apparent program effects. In December 1989, interviews were completed with residents in 521 households. In June 1990, 422 respondents were interviewed in Wave 2. Wave 3 was conducted in December 1990 and included 423 respondents. In all, 642 individuals were interviewed, 283 of whom were interviewed for all three waves. Because of the evaluation's design, the data can be analyzed to reveal individual-level changes for the 283 respondents who were interviewed on all three occasions, and the data can also be used to determine a cross-section representation of the residents by including the 359 "new" persons interviewed during the course of the evaluation. Information collected includes years and months lived in the development, assessments of changes in the neighborhood, whether the respondent planned to stay in the development, interactions among residents, awareness of anti-drug programs, ranking of various problems in the development, concerns and reports of being a victim of various crimes, perceived safety of the development, assessment of drug use and availability, assessment of police activity and visibility, and personal contacts with police. The unit of analysis is the individual. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06482.v1 deterrence icpsr drug law enforcement icpsr drug law offenses icpsr drug offenders icpsr program evaluation icpsr public housing icpsr NACJD XI. Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime ICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice System Annan, Sampson O. Skogan, Wesley G. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 6482 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06482.v1 nmm 22 4500 ICPSR09962 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130524s1994 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR09962 MiAaI MiAaI Modern Policing and the Control of Illegal Drugs [electronic resource] Testing New Strategies in Oakland, California, and Birmingham, Alabama, 1987-1989 Craig D. Uchida , Brian Forst , Sampson O. Annan 2005-11-04 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1994 ICPSR 9962 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-24. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. These data were collected in Oakland, California, and Birmingham, Alabama, to examine the effectiveness of alternative drug enforcement strategies. A further objective was to compare the relative effectiveness of strategies drawn from professional- versus community-oriented models of policing. The professional model emphasizes police responsibility for crime control, whereas the community model stresses the importance of a police-citizen partnership in crime control. At each site, experimental treatments were applied to selected police beats. The Oakland Police Department implemented a high-visibility enforcement effort consisting of undercover buy-bust operations, aggressive patrols, and motor vehicle stops, while the Birmingham Police Department engaged in somewhat less visible buy-busts and sting operations. Both departments attempted a community-oriented approach involving door-to-door contacts with residents. In Oakland, four beats were studied: one beat used a special drug enforcement unit, another used a door-to-door community policing strategy, a third used a combination of these approaches, and the fourth beat served as a control group. In Birmingham, three beats were chosen: Drug enforcement was conducted by the narcotics unit in one beat, door-to-door policing, as in Oakland, was used in another beat, and a police substation was established in the third beat. To evaluate the effectiveness of these alternative strategies, data were collected from three sources. First, a panel survey was administered in two waves on a pre-test/post-test basis. The panel survey data addressed the ways in which citizens' perceptions of drug activity, crime problems, neighborhood safety, and police service were affected by the various policing strategies. Second, structured observations of police and citizen encounters were made in Oakland during the periods the treatments were in effect. Observers trained by the researchers recorded information regarding the roles and behaviors of police and citizens as well as police compliance with the experiment's procedures. And third, to assess the impact of the alternative strategies on crime rates, reported crime data were collected for time periods before and during the experimental treatment periods, both in the targeted beats and city-wide. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09962.v1 crime control icpsr drug law enforcement icpsr drug law offenses icpsr drug related crimes icpsr drug traffic icpsr neighborhoods icpsr program evaluation icpsr citizen attitudes icpsr community involvement icpsr community policing icpsr NACJD IX. Police ICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice System Uchida, Craig D. Forst, Brian Annan, Sampson O. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 9962 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09962.v1