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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaeqj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Data Tools 7. Complete Multiyear Arrest Records for Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, DC Charles Murray American Enterprise Institute June 2023 Samuel Johnson famously said that a man who is tired of London is tired of life. I feel analogously about the dataset for Data Tools #7. If you are a quantitative social policy analyst and cannot think of good questions to ask about this dataset, you need a new career. The database, LawanyArrests.csv, contains the complete arrest records for arguably the three most important cities in America: Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC. The arrest data go back to 2013 for Washington, 2010 for Los Angeles, and 2006 for New York. They continue through calendar year 2022. In all, LawanyArrests.csv contains records on 7,122,725 arrests, including for 21,624 murders, 20,519 rapes, 215,378 robberies, 358,801 aggravated assaults, and 113,777 burglaries. LawanyArrests.csv contains variables coded so they are comparable across the three cities and across years, including not just the arrest date and offense category but also the latitude and longitude of the offense and the arrestee's age, sex, and race. LawanyArrests.csv also contains variables with the original police characterizations of the arrests and the charges brought. Two variables that I created enable you to analyze arrests for the eight FBI index offenses and 40 other offense categories across the three cities. Are you asking whether broken windows policing has changed over time? Several of the categories correspond to classic broken-windows offenses (e.g., Graffiti/Deface Property and Damage/Destroy Property). Do you want to test that the sudden rise in African American deaths in traffic accidents after summer 2020 resulted from increased police unwillingness to pull over blacks for reckless driving? You can examine racial patterns of arrests

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