General Social Survey - Victimization (GSS)

Perception of person: local police being approachable and easy to talk to, category

Perception of local police being approachable and easy to talk to refers to whether a person feels that the local police force does a good job, an average job or a poor job of being approachable and easy to talk to. Local police force refers to the police responsible for the municipality, and excludes security guards, fire marshals, by-law officers and all others who have no authority to make arrests.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.