City Police Expenditures, 1946-1985: [United States] (ICPSR 8706)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Ruth, et al. Triplett

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08706.v1

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Summary

This study examines police expenditures for selected cities for an extended period of time. The data set contains one variable per year for each of the following items: total general expenditures, expenditure for police protection, deflated general expenditures adjusted for inflation, deflated police expenditures adjusted for inflation, residential population, land area, patterns of population change during the study period, government identification, and implicit price deflators of goods and services.

Citation

Triplett, Ruth. City Police Expenditures, 1946-1985: [United States]. [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08706.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Sample

All cities that had 50,000 or more residents in 1940 or entered that size class during the study period. All towns and townships in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were included.

Universe

Cities in the United States.

Data Source

ICPSR public-use tapes, United States Bureau of the Census population estimates, and United States Bureau of the Census Area and Geographic reports

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1987-10-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Triplett, Ruth et al. CITY POLICE EXPENDITURES, 1946-1985. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology [producer], 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08706.v1
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.