This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are … more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that … factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers …

This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are … more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that … factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers …

Police use of force – particularly lethal force – is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To … understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive …

Police use of force - particularly lethal force - is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To … understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive …

Morris and Shoub (2024) study whether fatal police shootings mobilize voter participation in presidential elections …. They use a discontinuity-in-time design to causally estimate the effect of a police killing on turnout, comparing the voter … participation of communities near a killing before and after election day. Morris and Shoub (2024) find that police killings spurred …