Information gathered by police regarding homicide events were compared with information on the same events gathered by onsite interviews by a researcher. Data were gathered on 414 homicide events which involved 491 perpetrators and 436 victims. The police were asked to indicate which category of a tripartite model best described the event. This model asserts that drugs and violence are related in three different ways: psychopharmacologically, economic compulsive, or systemic. The analysis indicated that the perception of reality inferred from crime data reported by the police differs from the perception of the same set of events by social scientists. In addition, a joint police-researcher effort improved the quality of data collected and permitted analyses that would otherwise not have been feasible. Tables and 56 references
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