Police Response Time Analysis, 1975 (ICPSR 7760)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07760.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department. Police Response Time Analysis, 1975. [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07760.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (73-NI-99-0047, 77-NI-99-0016)

Subject Terms

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Time Period(s)

1975-03 -- 1975-12

Date of Collection

1975-03 -- 1975-12

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

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.

Universe

Police actions in response to calls in Kansas City, Missouri.

Data Source

(1) personal interviews, (2) telephone interviews, and (3) police dispatch tapes

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-03-18

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:
  • 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

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 25 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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:

  • Standardized missing values.
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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.