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Detectives and Criminal Investigators

SOC 33-3021.00 · 14,792 matched workers · high confidence

Roughly balanced
50.9% Democratic, 49.1% Republican

Two-party shares across 14,792 workers in this occupation matched to voter registration records.

50.9%
49.1%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
51.4% D · 48.6% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Major group
Protective Service Occupations
SOC major code 33-0000
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Where Detectives and Criminal Investigators falls

More Republican than 63% of occupations in Protective Service Occupations.

← DemocraticRepublican →Security Guards — 56% DemocraticPolice and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — 39% DemocraticLifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers — 62% DemocraticFirst-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives — 39% DemocraticFirefighters — 40% DemocraticFirst-Line Supervisors of Security Workers — 49% DemocraticRetail Loss Prevention Specialists — 53% DemocraticIntelligence Analysts — 52% DemocraticCorrectional Officers and Jailers — 53% DemocraticGambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators — 56% DemocraticFirst-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers — 36% DemocraticPrivate Detectives and Investigators — 37% DemocraticFire Inspectors and Investigators — 42% DemocraticTransit and Railroad Police — 59% DemocraticProtective Service Workers, All Other — 49% DemocraticParking Enforcement Workers — 55% DemocraticFirst-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other — 43% DemocraticFirst-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers — 53% DemocraticSchool Bus Monitors — 59% DemocraticPolice Identification and Records Officers — 56% DemocraticFish and Game Wardens — 41% DemocraticAnimal Control Workers — 60% DemocraticForest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists — 53% DemocraticCrossing Guards and Flaggers — 58% DemocraticCustoms and Border Protection Officers — 54% DemocraticTransportation Security Screeners — 60% DemocraticDetectives and Criminal Investigators — 51% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 26 other occupations in Protective Service Occupations; size scales by worker count. Hover to see names — click to jump.

How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an occupation by linking voter registration records to employment profiles. Each worker is assigned to one occupation per year. The two-party shares above exclude workers with no major-party affiliation.

Read the full methodology or the published Organization Science paper.

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Citation

Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben (2026). “VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations.” Organization Science, 37(2), 444–465.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20402