Table 1.
Sociodemographic Characteristics of the Three Subgroups of Police Officers
| Non-CIT Officers (n=109) |
% | Assigned Pre-CIT Officers (n=24) |
% | Self-Selected Pre-CIT Officers (n=44) |
% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | 38.5±7.1 | 38.6±9.7 | 38.7±8.9 | |||
|
| ||||||
| Educational attainment, years | 13.7±1.7 | 13.9±1.6 | 14.2±1.8 | |||
|
| ||||||
| Years having served as a police officer * | 12.2±6.8 | 7.3±6.7 | 10.2±6.9 | |||
|
| ||||||
| Gender, male | 91 | 84 | 18 | 75 | 35 | 80 |
|
| ||||||
| Ethnicity, non-Hispanic | 106 | 97 | 21 | 91 | 42 | 98 |
|
| ||||||
| Race * | ||||||
| white/Caucasian | 83 | 76 | 14 | 58 | 29 | 66 |
| black/African American | 20 | 18 | 10 | 42 | 14 | 32 |
| Other | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
|
| ||||||
| Relationship status * | ||||||
| Single and never married | 6 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 25 |
| Married or living with a partner | 78 | 72 | 15 | 63 | 27 | 61 |
| Separated or divorced | 25 | 23 | 5 | 21 | 6 | 14 |
|
| ||||||
| Total income for everyone in the household * | ||||||
| <$40,000 | 21 | 19 | 10 | 42 | 4 | 9 |
| $40,001–$60,000 | 19 | 17 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 32 |
| >$60,000 | 69 | 63 | 10 | 42 | 26 | 59 |
*
Statistically significant difference across groups, p<.05.