@article{Erickson_Rutledge_Lenk_Nelson_Jones-Webb_Toomey_2015, title={Patterns of alcohol policy enforcement activities among local law enforcement agencies: A latent class analysis}, volume={4}, url={https://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/article/view/204}, DOI={10.7895/ijadr.v4i2.204}, abstractNote={<p><span>Erickson, D., Rutledge, P., Lenk, K., Nelson, T., Jones-Webb, R., &amp; Toomey, T. (2015). Patterns of alcohol policy enforcement activities among local law enforcement agencies: A latent class analysis. </span><em>The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 4</em><span>(2), 103-111. doi:</span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v4i2.204">http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v4i2.204</a></p><p><strong>Aims:</strong> We assessed levels and patterns of alcohol policy enforcement activities among U.S. local law enforcement agencies.</p><p><br /><strong>Design/Setting/Participants:</strong> We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of 1,631 local law enforcement<br />agencies across the 50 states.</p><p><br /><strong>Measures/Methods:</strong> We assessed 29 alcohol policy enforcement activities within each of five enforcement domains—underage<br />alcohol possession/consumption, underage alcohol provision, underage alcohol sales, impaired driving, and overservice of<br />alcohol—and conducted a series of latent class analyses to identify unique classes or patterns of enforcement activity for each<br />domain.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> We identified three to four unique enforcement activity classes for each of the enforcement domains. In four of the<br />domains, we identified a Uniformly Low class (i.e., little or no enforcement) and a Uniformly High enforcement activity class<br />(i.e., relatively high levels of enforcement), with one or two middle classes where some but not all activities were conducted.<br />The underage provision domain had a Uniformly Low class but not a Uniformly High class. The Uniformly Low class was the<br />most prevalent class in three domains: underage provision (58%), underage sales (61%), and overservice (79%). In contrast, less<br />than a quarter of agencies were in Uniformly High classes.</p><p><br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> We identified qualitatively distinct patterns of enforcement activity, with a large proportion of agencies in classes<br />characterized by little or no enforcement and fewer agencies in high enforcement classes. An important next step is to determine<br />if these patterns are associated with rates of alcohol use and alcohol-related injury and mortality.</p&gt;}, number={2}, journal={International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research}, author={Erickson, Darin J. and Rutledge, Patricia C. and Lenk, Kathleen M. and Nelson, Toben F. and Jones-Webb, Rhonda and Toomey, Traci L.}, year={2015}, month={Dec.}, pages={103-111} }