be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …

How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime …-fighting effectiveness? To answer these questions, we construct a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. We find that … while IT adoption had substantial effects on a wide range of police organizational practices, it had, by itself, a …