Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause …

28% of all drug incidents in the country. São Paulo is also the state with the largest police force-about 100 …,000 policiais militares [ostensible police officers] and 30,000 policiais civis [investigative police officers]. São Paulo law … amount of drugs seized. By comparing those data, we show police resources are largely used in incidents that have no impact …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …

Do collective bargaining rights for law enforcement result in more civilian deaths at the hands of the police? Using an … event-study design, we find that the introduction of duty to bargain requirements with police unions has led to a … significant increase in non-white civilian deaths at the hands of police during the late twentieth century. We find no impact on …