Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without … difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the … underreporting of police killings. Our results show that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death …

The three lockdown periods across 2020-2021 due to COVID-19 had significant consequences for police. Pandemic lockdown … Wales. The analysis demonstrates the existence of two counter-prevailing dynamics in the working world of police in England … police and the public and senior officers' sensitivity to the needs of the workforce, were foci of concern and discussion. On …

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 …

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 …