Decision-related research on the organization of service delivery systems in metropolitan areas

Description

For the project which investigated the delivery of police services, the research design included five major clusters of variables: service conditions, the legal structure, organizational arrangements, manpower levels, and expenditure levels. Data were collected in the local jurisdictions in a sample of 80 SMSAs relating to specific services including patrol, traffic control, criminal investigation, radio communications, adult pre-trial detention, entry-level training, and crime laboratory analysis. One datafile contains information for 1,761 police agencies. The second datafile contains information for 1,885 service areas which are mutually exclusive geographical divisions of each SMSA which are the recipients of the police services.