Effect of Police Employment on Crime

• NCJ Number: 91195
• Journal: Criminology Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Dated: (August 1983) Pages: 375-394
• Author(s): D F Greenberg; R C Kessler; C Loftin
• Date Published: 1983
• Length: 20 pages
• Grant Number(s): 80-IJ-CX-0062
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored

Annotation

The effects of police employment on index violent crime rates and index property crime rates are studied using a maximum-likelihood technique to estimate two-wave multivariate panel models.

Abstract

Separate analyses are carried out for a sample of 252 U.S. suburbs and for a sample of 269 U.S. cities for the years 1960 and 1970. (Publisher abstract)