police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces … significantly in SCI police forces relative to non-SCI forces after the initiative was introduced. Moreover, the policy seems to …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of police officers to … central London boroughs as compared to outer London - in fact, police deployment in central London increased by over 30 …

The paper analyses the impact of centrally regulated pay on the quality of applicants to be police officers in England … quality of applicants. First, national wage setting implies that relative wages between the police and other occupations vary … the proportion of crime that is violent) is also associated with lower quality police applicants. …