Calling the police
Subtitle: citizen reporting of serious crime, 1979
By: principal investigators, William Spelman and Dale K. Brown
Series: ICPSR -- 8185; ICPSR (Series) -- 8185
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Citizen crime reporting; Police-community relations
Description: This dataset replicates the citizen reporting component of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department's Response Time Analysis. Information is included on reported crime incidents of aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft, burglary, larceny-theft, forcible rape, and robbery. The data cover citizen calls to police. The data are taken from police dispatch records and interviews of citizens requesting police assistance. The variables taken from the dispatch records include the dispatch times, call priority, police travel time, age, sex, and race of the caller, response code, number of suspects, and area of the city in which the call originated. The variables taken from the citizen interviews include respondent's role in the incident (victim, caller, victim-caller, witness-caller), incident location, relationship of caller to victim, number of victims, identification of suspect, interaction with police, and others.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: April 21 and December 7, 1979.

Jacksonville, Florida; Peoria, Illinois; Rochester, New York; San Diego, California.

3,300 reported crime incidents, approximately 250 variables. Each file has a logical record length of 80.