Violence Against Police: Baltimore County, Maryland, 1984-1986

This data collection examines individual and situational
characteristics of nonfatal assaults on police officers in the
Baltimore County Police Department. In the assault data, variables
include: (1) information on the officer such as age, race, sex, height,
weight, education, rank, assignment, years of experience, weapon, and
injury sustained, (2) information on the offender(s) such as age, race,
sex, height, weight, weapon, injury sustained, and arrest status, and
(3) information on the actual situation and incident itself, such as
type of call anticipated, type of call encountered, type of location,
numbers of persons present (by role, e.g., assaulter, nonassaulter,
complainant, etc.), type of initial officer action, actions of suspect
before assault, sobriety/drug use by suspects, and final disposition.
The calls for service data were collected to provide an indication of
the frequency of various types of calls. In these data, variables
include time of call, initial call category, disposition code, and
sheet ID.