Data on police treatment of individuals arrested in Toronto for simple possession of small quantities of marijuana. The data are part of a larger data set featured in a series of articles in the Toronto Star newspaper.
A data frame with 5226 observations on the following 8 variables.
Whether or not the arrestee was released with a summons; a factor with levels: No; Yes.
The arrestee's race; a factor with levels: Black; White.
1997 through 2002; a numeric vector.
in years; a numeric vector.
a factor with levels: Female; Male.
a factor with levels: No; Yes.
Number of police data bases (of previous arrests, previous convictions, parole status, etc. – 6 in all) on which the arrestee's name appeared; a numeric vector
Source
Personal communication from Michael Friendly, York University.
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.
