DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03080
title: National Evaluation of Title I of the 1994 Crime Act: Survey Sampling Frame of Law Enforcement Agencies, 1993-1997
title: Archival Version

description: The data in this collection represent the sampling frame
 used to draw a national sample of law enforcement agencies. The
 sampling frame was a composite of law enforcement agencies in
 existence between June 1993 and June 1997 and was used in a subsequent
 study, a national evaluation of Title I of the 1994 Crime Act. The
 evaluation was undertaken to (1) measure differences between Community
 Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grantees and nongrantees at the time
 of application, (2) measure changes over time in grantee agencies, and
 (3) compare changes over time between grantees and nongrantees. The
 sampling frame was comprised of two components: (a) a grantee
 component consisting of agencies that had received funding during
 1995, and (b) a nongrantee component consisting of agencies that
appeared potentially eligible but remained unfunded through 1995.
description: The data in this collection represent the
 sampling frame used to draw a national sample of law enforcement
 agencies and was used in a subsequent study, a national evaluation of
 Title I of the 1994 Crime Act. The evaluation was undertaken to (1)
 measure differences between Community Oriented Policing Services
 (COPS) grantees and nongrantees at the time of application, (2)
 measure changes over time in grantee agencies, and (3) compare changes
over time between grantees and nongrantees.
description: The sampling frame, which was a composite of law
 enforcement agencies in existence between June 1993 and June 1997, was
 comprised of two components. The first, a grantee component, consisted
 of agencies that had received funding during 1995. A grantee list,
 created in April 1996, was obtained from applicant records from the
 grants management database from the Office of Community Oriented
 Policing Services (COPS). Specifically, COPS provided databases for
 the following programs: (1) Funding Accelerated for Small Towns
 (FAST), (2) Accelerated Hiring, Education, and Deployment (AHEAD), (3)
 Universal Hiring Program (UHP), and (4) Making Officer Redeployment
 Effective (MORE). These databases included, among other things, the
 applicant's originating agency identifier (ORI) and the status for
 each submitted application. An application was considered "funded" if
 the status variable indicated that the application was accepted by
 COPS for funding by December 31, 1995. Because a single agency could
 have had applications accepted in any of the multiple programs, the
 various databases were flattened so that each agency represented a
 single record. An agency was added to the grantee component of the
 sampling frame if at least one of its applications was deemed
 "funded." The second component of the sampling frame was a nongrantee
 component, which consisted of agencies that appeared potentially
 eligible but remained unfunded through 1995. To determine the
 nongrantee component of the sampling frame, a master list of
 candidates for inclusion as eligible nongrantees was compiled in July
 1998 consisting of agencies pulled from the following sources: (1) the
 National Crime Information Center (NCIC), (2) the Uniform Crime
 Reporting (UCR) Program, and (3) the National Law Enforcement Agency
 List (NLEAL). NLEAL, which was a subset of the Justice Agency List,
 contained the most comprehensive list of law enforcement agencies in
 existence at any point between June 1993 and June 1997. To reduce this
 master list, "clearly ineligible" agencies were removed using various
 automated algorithms. Researchers also used a combination of visual
 inspection and computer matching on the agencies from the NCIC and UCR
 to further eliminate "clearly ineligible" agencies. This reduced
 master list was then merged with the flattened grantee list and any
 agency appearing on both lists was removed from the nongrantee master
 list. The resulting agencies from the reduced master list (making up
 the nongrantee component), along with the grantee list (making up the
grantee component) comprised the sampling frame.
description: Variables include agency identification number,
 type of agency, FIPS code, Office of Community Policing Service
 eligibility, COPS funding status, total number of full- and part-time
 employees, total number of full- and part-time sworn employees,
 population, and sheriff agencies' eligibility for grants, based on one
 of three criteria: (1) the sheriff agency already had a Community
 Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant, (2) another sheriff agency in
 the same state received a COPS grant, or (3) the sheriff agency was
 located in a state where sheriff agencies were known to have law
enforcement authority.
description: Response Rates: Not applicable.
description: Presence of Common Scales: None.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: National Evaluation of Title I of the 1994 Crime Act: Survey Sampling Frame of Law Enforcement Agencies, 1993-1997
description: All law enforcement agencies in the United States in
existence at any time between June 1993 and June 1997.
description: (1) Users are strongly encouraged to obtain the full
 research report from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service
 (NCJ 183643) for a detailed description of the sampling frame and the
 subsequent study that pulled samples from the sampling frame. (2) The
 number of cases contained in this collection differs from that stated
 in the research report because of missing data not used by the
 principal investigators. (3) The user guide and codebook are 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.