Campaign Contributions by Law Enforcement in Prosecutorial Elections, 2014-2017

This dataset record contains each campaign contribution from law enforcement affiliated organizations and individuals that were made in local prosecutor elections from a single election cycle for each jurisdiction that elects its local prosecutor. Most of the data comes from the 2014 or 2016 election cycle. But, for some jurisdictions, the data comes from the as far back as 2012 and as recent as 2017. These contributions are part of a larger database of campaign contributions in prosecutor elections that was created by the Prosecutors and Politics Project at the University of North Carolina School of Law. The Politics and Prosecutors Project is a non-partisan initiative that studies the democratic accountability of elected prosecutors and seeks to increase understanding of the relationship between prosecutors and politics through empirical study and careful analysis in the United States.