{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "This survey collected descriptive information from\r\nmunicipal police departments and sheriffs offices across the United\r\nStates to determine whether the departments had implemented community\r\npolicing, how their investigative functions were organized, and the\r\nways in which their investigative organizational structure may have\r\nbeen modified to accommodate a community policing approach. The\r\nresearch project involved a national mail survey of municipal police\r\ndepartments and sheriffs offices in all jurisdictions with populations\r\nof more than 50,000 and 100 or more sworn officers. The survey was\r\nmailed in the late fall of 1997. Data contain responses from 405\r\nmunicipal departments and 196 sheriffs offices. Questionnaires were\r\nsimilar but were modified depending on whether they were sent to\r\nmunicipal or sheriffs agencies. Data generated by the questionnaires\r\nprovide descriptive information about the agencies, including agency\r\ntype, state, size of population served, number of full-time and\r\npart-time sworn and civilian personnel, number of auxiliary and rescue\r\npersonnel, number of detectives, whether the sworn personnel were\r\nrepresented by a bargaining unit, and if the agency was\r\naccredited. Respondents reported whether community policing had been\r\nimplemented and, if so, identified various features that described\r\ncommunity policing as it was structured in their agency, including\r\nyear implementation began, number of sworn personnel with assignments\r\nthat included community policing activities, and if someone was\r\nspecifically responsible for overseeing community policing activities\r\nor implementation. Also elicited was information about the\r\norganization of the investigative function, including number of sworn\r\npersonnel assigned specifically to the investigative/detective\r\nfunction, the organizational structure of this function, location and\r\nassignment of investigators or the investigative function,\r\nspecialization of detectives/investigators, their pay scale compared\r\nto patrol officers, their relationship with patrol officers, and their\r\nchain-of-command. Finally, respondents reported whether the\r\ninvestigative structure or function had been modified to accommodate a\r\ncommunity policing approach, and if so, the year the changes were\r\nfirst implemented.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03283.v1", "title": "National Survey of Investigations in the Community Policing Context, 1997  "}], "identifier": "3650", "issued": "2001-12-14T00:00:00", "keyword": ["community policing", "law enforcement agencies", "organizational structure", "police departments", "police officers", "program evaluation"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2001-12-14T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "National Survey of Investigations in the Community Policing Context, 1997  "}