Police Response Time Analysis, 1975 (ICPSR 7760)
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Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07760.v1
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This is a study of the relationship between the amount of time taken by police to respond to calls for service and the outcomes of criminal and noncriminal incidents in Kansas City, Missouri. Outcomes were evaluated in terms of police effectiveness and citizen satisfaction. Response time data were generated by timing telephone and radio exchanges on police dispatch tapes. Police travel time was measured and recorded by highly trained civilian observers. To assess satisfaction with police service, personal and telephone interviews were conducted with victims and witnesses who had made the calls to the police.
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Sixty-nine police beats within the three patrol divisions of Kansas City, Missouri, were selected on the basis of their high rates of robbery and aggravated assaults. These police beats seemed likely to produce a higher proportion of the types of calls desired for the analysis.
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Police actions in response to calls in Kansas City, Missouri.
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(1) personal interviews, (2) telephone interviews, and (3) police dispatch tapes
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1984-03-18
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- Kansas City, Missouri, Police Dept. POLICE RESPONSE TIME ANALYSIS, 1975. ICPSR version. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Police Dept. [producer], 1979. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07760.v1
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1984-03-18 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:
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