Reporting of Drug-Related Crimes: Resident and Police Perspectives in the United States, 1988-1990
Description
This data collection investigates the ways in which police
use reports of drug-related crimes provided by residents of high
drug/crime areas and how willing residents of these areas are to
report such crimes to the police. Structured interviews were
conducted by telephone with police representatives in most of the
nation's 50 largest cities and in person with residents and police
officers in high drug/crime districts in each of four major cities:
Newark, Chicago, El Paso, and Philadelphia. Police department
representatives were queried about the usefulness of citizen reports,
reasons for citizens' reluctance to make reports, how the rate of
citizen reports could be improved, and how citizen reports worked with
other community crime prevention strategies. Residents were asked
about their tenure in the neighborhood, attitudes toward the quality
of life in the neighborhood, major social problems facing the
neighborhood, and quality of city services such as police and fire
protection, garbage collection, and public health services. Additional
questions were asked about the amount of crime in the neighborhood,
the amount of drug use and drug-related crime, and the fear of
crime. Basic demographic information such as sex, race, and language
in which the interview was conducted is also provided.
Resources
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Description |
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ICPSR09925.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09925.v1 |
Tags
- police-officers
- fear-of-crime
- neighborhood-conditions
- municipal-services
- crime-prevention
- crime-reporting
- citizen-crime-reporting
- neighborhoods
- community-involvement
- fire-protection
- drug-related-crimes
- police-protection