| Zusammenfassung: | This study was an evaluation of the Baltimore County Community-Oriented Drug Enforcement (CODE) Program, which was designed to introduce community policing approaches to combating drug sales in local jurisdictions. In particular, the aim of this project was to assess the effects of the CODE program with respect to citizen attitudes, crime, and market displacement. The CODE program was evaluated as it evolved from 1990 (Phase I) through the end of 1991 (Phase II). In Phase I, a total of seven CODE projects in five of the nine precincts in Baltimore County were funded, and the evaluation examined four of the seven projects. Under Phase II, seven projects in six of the precincts were implemented. The Phase II evaluation examined three of the projects. To measure the effects of the CODE program on citizen perceptions, surveys of adult residents were conducted in each of the four target areas during Phase I and in three target areas during Phase II (Parts 1 and 2). To evaluate the impact of CODE on crime, court records from the Clerk of Courts were examined to determine the dispositional outcomes of adults arrested under the CODE program. In Phase I, burglaries and robberies in each of the four target areas were compared to those in the remainder of the precincts (Parts 3-10). These two crime types were chosen because they were often associated with drug activity. Because of the limited numbers of burglaries and robberies found in the target areas in Phase I, the analysis was expanded in Phase II to include Part I index crimes (Parts 11-14) and Part II crimes, including drug crimes (Parts 15-20). Parts 1 and 2, Community Survey Data, contain variables concerning victimization experiences, fear of crime, drug sales in the neighborhood, crime prevention strategies, satisfaction with police, police visibility, and community organizing before and after the CODE program was implemented. Demographic variables include age, race, gender, education, marital status, and employment. Parts 3-20 include information on offense code, precinct, beat, UCR code, date the crime was reported, date the crime occurred, disposition, number of victims, and relationship of victim to suspect. In addition, Parts 11-20 contain street address and ZIP code variables, and Parts 11-14 include "x" and "y" coordinates.
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