Public and Private Resources in Public Safety [United States]: Metropolitan Area Panel Data, 1977 and 1982

This data collection provides a series of measures relating
to public safety for all SMSAs in the United States at two time
periods. Variables include: municipal employment (e.g. number of
municipal employees, number of police employees, police payrolls,
municipal employees per 10,000 inhabitants), municipal revenue (total
debt, property taxes, utility revenues, income taxes), nonmunicipal
employment (retail services, mining services, construction services,
finance services), crime rates (murder, robbery, auto theft, rape),
labor force and unemployment, property value, and other miscellaneous
topics.