Community Policing in Baltimore, 1986-1987 (ICPSR 9401)

Principal Investigator(s): Pate, Antony M.; Annan, Sampson O.

Summary: This data collection was designed to investigate the effects of foot patrol and ombudsman policing on perceptions of the incidence of crime and community policing practices in Baltimore, Maryland. Data collected at Wave 1 measured perceptions of crime and community policing practices before the two new policing programs were introduced. Follow-up data for Wave 2 were collected approximately one year later and were designed to measure the effects of the new policing practices. Included in the dat... (more info)

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Pate, Antony M., and Sampson O. Annan. Community Policing in Baltimore, 1986-1987. ICPSR09401-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09401.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09401.v1

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (86-IJ-CX-0003)

Summary:   This data collection was designed to investigate the effects of foot patrol and ombudsman policing on perceptions of the incidence of crime and community policing practices in Baltimore, Maryland. Data collected at Wave 1 measured perceptions of crime and community policing practices before the two new policing programs were introduced. Follow-up data for Wave 2 were collected approximately one year later and were designed to measure the effects of the new policing practices. Included in the data collection instrument were questions on the perceived incidence of various crimes, police effectiveness and presence, disorder, property and personal crime and the likelihood of crime in general, feelings of safety, crime avoidance behaviors and the use of crime prevention devices, cohesion and satisfaction with neighborhoods, and awareness of victimization and victimization history. The instrument also included demographic questions on employment, education, race, and income.

Subject Terms:   community policing, fear of crime, foot patrol, police community relations, police effectiveness

Geographic Coverage:   Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Time Period:  

• 1986--1987

Universe:   All residents of Baltimore, Maryland.

Data Types:   survey data

Sample:   Multistage sampling based on neighborhood socioeconomics.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Standardized missing values.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  1990-10-16

Version History:

• 2006-03-30 File CB9401.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
• 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
• 1998-04-02 The dataset now contains data files for Waves 1 and 2 only. The combined data file has been eliminated. Data definition statements for SAS and SPSS have been prepared, and documentation is now available as a PDF file.

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