Modern Policing and the Control of Illegal Drugs : Testing New Strategies in Oakland, California, and Birmingham, Alabama, 1987-1989 Craig D. Uchida, Brian Forst, Sampson O. Annan.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Uchida, Craig D.

Forst, Brian.

Annan, Sampson O.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9962.

ICPSR ; 9962

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police administration--California--Oakland--Statistics.

Police administration.

Police administration--Alabama--Birmingham--Statistics.

Drug control--California--Oakland--Statistics.

Drug control.

Drug control--Alabama--Birmingham--Statistics.

Alabama--Birmingham.

California--Oakland.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

These data were collected in Oakland, California, and Birmingham, Alabama, to examine the effectiveness of alternative drug enforcement strategies. A further objective was to compare the relative effectiveness of strategies drawn from professional- versus community-oriented models of policing. The professional model emphasizes police responsibility for crime control, whereas the community model stresses the importance of a police-citizen partnership in crime control. At each site, experimental treatments were applied to selected police beats. The Oakland Police Department implemented a high-visibility enforcement effort consisting of undercover buy-bust operations, aggressive patrols, and motor vehicle stops, while the Birmingham Police Department engaged in somewhat less visible buy-busts and sting operations. Both departments attempted a community-oriented approach involving door-to-door contacts with residents. In Oakland, four beats were studied: one beat used a special drug enforcement unit, another used a door-to-door community policing strategy, a third used a combination of these approaches, and the fourth beat served as a control group. In Birmingham, three beats were chosen: Drug enforcement was conducted by the narcotics unit in one beat, door-to-door policing, as in Oakland, was used in another beat, and a police substation was established in the third beat. To evaluate the effectiveness of these alternative strategies, data were collected from three sources. First, a panel survey was administered in two waves on a pre-test/post-test basis. The panel survey data addressed the ways in which citizens' perceptions of drug activity, crime problems, neighborhood safety, and police service were affected by the various policing strategies. Second, structured observations of police and citizen encounters were made in Oakland during the periods the treatments were... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09962

Contents:

Part 1: Birmingham Wave I Data; Part 2: Birmingham Wave II Data; Part 3: Birmingham Selected Questions, Waves I and II; Part 4: Birmingham Crime and Arrest Data; Part 5: Oakland Wave I Data; Part 6: Oakland Wave II Data; Part 7: Oakland Selected Questions, Waves I and II; Part 8: Oakland Police-Citizen Encounters With No Arrests; Part 9: Oakland Police-Citizen Encounters With Arrests; Part 11: SAS Data Definition Statements for Birmingham Wave IData; Part 12: SAS Data Definition Statements for Birmingham Wave IIData; Part 13: SAS Data Definition Statements for Birmingham SelectedQuestions, Waves I and II; Part 14: SAS Data Definition Statements for Birmingham Crime andArrest Data; Part 15: SAS Data Definition Statements for Oakland Wave I Data; Part 16: SAS Data Definition Statements for Oakland Wave II Data; Part 17: SAS Data Definition Statements for Oakland SelectedQuestions, Waves I and II; Part 18: SAS Data Definition Statements for Oakland Police-CitizenEncounters With ...

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Start: 1987; and end: 1989.

OCLC:

61164772

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