The Source for Crime and Justice Data

City Police Expenditures, 1946-1985: [United States]

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

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... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08706.v1

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