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Description & Citation--Study No. 4288

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4288
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04288
 
Title:Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. TRAFFIC STOP DATA COLLECTION POLICIES FOR STATE POLICE, 2004 [Computer file]. ICPSR04288-v1. Washingon, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics [producer], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-09-02. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04288
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This collection contains survey data collected at the end of October 2004 from the 49 state law enforcement agencies in the United States that had traffic patrol responsibility. Information was gathered about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic stops, including the circumstances under which demographic data should be collected for traffic-related stops and whether such information should be stored in an electronically accessible format. The survey was not designed to obtain available agency databases containing traffic stop records.
 
Subject Term(s):data, ethnic identity, ethnicity, police patrol, policies and procedures, race, traffic
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:state
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2004
 
Date(s) of Collection:October 2004
 
Unit of Observation:agency
 
Universe:State law enforcement agencies in the United States with traffic patrol responsibility.
 
Data Type:survey data
 

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:self-enumerated questionnaire
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2005-09-02
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004
 

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