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Second, we control for a number alternative factors suggested in more mainstream criminological literature including the following independent variables: the percent of 14 to 21 year old (young) minority males (MPOPY); number of police per 1000 population (POL); the lagged value of police expenditures in millions per 100,000 population (POLEXL); and the lagged value of the crime category in question.23 (See Table 1 for description of variables employed in this analysis.)

Additional analyses presented below addresses the problem of multicollinearity, and the relationship of surplus value to violent crime and to the rate of property crimes known to police for this time period (1950-1974). For now, let us tum to an examination of our initial property crime arrest model.