DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38292.v1
title: Supplementary Data for: A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing
title: Version 1

description: This collection contains the restricted-access data for the article "A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing" published in the American Economic Review and supplements the main replication package found in OpenICPSR. These data are a Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped for release, but not checked or processed.
description: The purpose of this study was to estimate the degree to which individual police officers practice racial discrimination.
description: This collection contains the following files: The following files include geocoded information: utc_05_15_geocode.csv: Dataset of citations geocoded to road segments. basemap_route_road.cpg, basemap_route_road.dbf: Shapefiles of Florida roads used for geocoding. Source,"Basemap Routes with Measures" MT_geocode.mp4: Video walking through the process for geocoding citations. The following files include personnel information received from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE): agencies.csv: List of police agencies and their identifiers in the FDLE data. basic_exam.csv: Officer scores on basic FDLE exams. complaint.csv: Complaints against officers. employment.csv: Officer employment histories at FDLE-covered agencies. person_data.csv: Officer personnel information such as DOB, gender, race/ethnicity. person_data2.xlsx: Updated version of person_data.csv to include officer education levels. SCRAMBLE.dta: Manually created crosswalk from officer identifiers in the FLDE datasets (person_nbr) to the scrambled officer identifier used in the provided analysis datasets. SCRAMBLE.do: Do-file that created SCRAMBLE.dta The following files were provided by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) covering administrative crash reports for 2010: non_redacted_2010_20101231_driver_20110304.txt: Drivers involved in each crash. non_redacted_2010_20101231_event_20110304.txt: Event information for each crash. The following files include information about officers provided by FHP (Florida Highway Patrol): Complaint_Records_Request.xlsx: Complaints made against FHP officers. promotion_exams.xls: Officers scores on FHP promotion exams, digitized from PDF. promotion_exams.pdf: PDF of officer scores on FHP promotion exams. use_of_force_public_records_request.xlsx: FHP officer-involved use of force incidents. The following files include traffic court dispositions datasets, extracts from the Traffic Citation and Accounting Transmission System (TCATS) database, provided by the Florida Court Clerks and Comptrollers. disposition_2005.txt: TCATS data for 2005. disposition_2006.txt: TCATS data for 2006. disposition_2007.txt: TCATS data for 2007. disposition_2008.txt: TCATS data for 2008. disposition_2009.txt: TCATS data for 2009. disposition_2010.txt: TCATS data for 2010. disposition_2011.txt: TCATS data for 2011. disposition_2012.txt: TCATS data for 2012. disposition_2013.txt: TCATS data for 2013. disposition_2014.txt: TCATS data for 2014. disposition_2015.txt: TCATS data for 2015. TCATS_codebook.pdf: TCATS codebook. The following files include citations datasets, extracts from the Uniform Traffic Citations (UTC) database, provided by the Florida Court Clerks and Comptrollers. citation_2005.txt: UTC data for 2005. citation_2006.txt: UTC data for 2006. citation_2007.txt: UTC data for 2007. citation_2008.txt: UTC data for 2008. citation_2009.txt: UTC data for 2009. citation_2010.txt: UTC data for 2010. citation_2011.txt: UTC data for 2011. citation_2012.txt: UTC data for 2012. citation_2013.txt: UTC data for 2013. citation_2014.txt: UTC data for 2014. citation_2015.txt: UTC data for 2015. UTC_codebook.pdf: UTC codebook.
description: A bunching estimation design was used.
description: Datasets: DS1: Supplementary Data for: A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing
description: Individuals involved in traffic stops in Florida from 2005-2015.
description: This data was originally published in OpenICPSR.The main data and code for this supplementary collection can be found in OpenICPSR.