{"@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 data collection is the result of an evaluation of the\r\nNEPHU program, conducted by the Police Foundation under the\r\nsponsorship of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). In August\r\n1989, the Bureau of Justice Assistance supported a grant in Denver,\r\nColorado, to establish a special Narcotics Enforcement in Public\r\nHousing Unit (NEPHU) within the Denver Police Department. The goal of\r\nthe Denver NEPHU was to reduce the availability of narcotics in and\r\naround the city's public housing areas by increasing drug arrests.\r\nNEPHU's six full-time officers made investigations and gathered\r\nintelligence leading to on-street arrests and search warrants. The\r\nunit also operated a special telephone Drug Hotline and met regularly\r\nwith tenant councils in the developments to improve community\r\nrelations. The program worked in cooperation with the Denver Housing\r\nAuthority and the uniformed patrol division of the Denver Police\r\nDepartment, which increased levels of uniformed patrols to maintain\r\nhigh visibility in the project areas to deter conventional crime.\r\nUsing a panel design, survey interviews were conducted with residents\r\nin the Quigg Newton and Curtis Park public housing units, focusing on\r\nevents that occurred during the past six months. Respondents were\r\ninterviewed during three time periods to examine the onset and\r\npersistence of any apparent program effects. In December 1989,\r\ninterviews were completed with residents in 521 households. In June\r\n1990, 422 respondents were interviewed in Wave 2. Wave 3 was conducted\r\nin December 1990 and included 423 respondents. In all, 642 individuals\r\nwere interviewed, 283 of whom were interviewed for all three waves.\r\nBecause of the evaluation's design, the data can be analyzed to reveal\r\nindividual-level changes for the 283 respondents who were interviewed\r\non all three occasions, and the data can also be used to determine a\r\ncross-section representation of the residents by including the 359\r\n\"new\" persons interviewed during the course of the evaluation.\r\nInformation collected includes years and months lived in the\r\ndevelopment, assessments of changes in the neighborhood, whether the\r\nrespondent planned to stay in the development, interactions among\r\nresidents, awareness of anti-drug programs, ranking of various\r\nproblems in the development, concerns and reports of being a victim of\r\nvarious crimes, perceived safety of the development, assessment of\r\ndrug use and availability, assessment of police activity and\r\nvisibility, and personal contacts with police. The unit of analysis is\r\nthe individual.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06482.v1", "title": "Drugs and Police Response:  Survey of Public Housing Residents in Denver, Colorado, 1989-1990"}], "identifier": "3660", "issued": "1995-08-16T00:00:00", "keyword": ["deterrence", "drug law enforcement", "drug law offenses", "drug offenders", "program evaluation", "public housing"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "1995-08-16T00:00:00", "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": "Drugs and Police Response:  Survey of Public Housing Residents in Denver, Colorado, 1989-1990"}