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    • Police Performance and Case Attrition in Los Angeles County, 1980-1981

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    The purpose of this data collection was to investigate the effects of crime rates, city characteristics, and police departments' financial resources on felony case attrition rates in 28 cities located in Los Angeles County, California. Demographic data for this collection were obtained from the 1983 COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK. Arrest data were collected directly from the 1980 and 1981 CALIFORNIA OFFENDER BASED TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS) data files maintained by the California Bureau of Criminal Statistics. City demographic variables include total population, minority population, population aged 65 years or older, number of female-headed families, number of index crimes, number of families below the poverty level, city expenditures, and police expenditures. City arrest data include information on number of arrests disposed and number of males, females, blacks, and whites arrested. Also included are data on the number of cases released by police, denied by prosecutors, and acquitted, and data on the number of convicted cases given prison terms.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Justice
    Maintainer
    Identifier 3267
    Data First Published 1990-10-16T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2006-01-18T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id df46fc7d-bfca-4d97-bbb8-2c4422da5310
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:060
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > National Institute of Justice
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 166b870b8684316a3af9d9a06d47b5257079cabf854f507ef4701734fbf16352
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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