We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the … neighborhoods. Moreover, this assignment can be achieved in a revenue-neutral way while resulting in small welfare gains for police …

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) have been the subject of much research on how the technology's enhanced documentation … of police/citizen interactions impact police behavior. Less attention has been paid to how BWC recordings affect the … adjudication of citizen complaints against the police. We employ citizen complaint data from the Chicago Police Department and …

with recent, widely publicized instances of police misconduct; declines in public trust in police; and a rise in gun … two levers: (1) police resources, and (2) policing strategies or policies, historically focused on crime control but … three types of evidence. First, we show there is substantial variability in violent crime and police use of force both …

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight, accountability, and transparency, yet …, particularly police use of force. Second, we carry out a benefit-cost analysis of BWCs, as financial barriers are often cited as a … key impediment to adoption by police departments. Our baseline estimate for the benefit-cost ratio of BWCs is 4 …

African-American motorists may adjust their driving in response to increased scrutiny by police. In daylight, when …

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily … simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities … over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected estimates of the police elasticity of the cost-weighted sum of …

their victimization to law enforcement due to mistrust of police. Our results suggest that high-profile acts of police … attitudes towards the police …

While police brutality has sparked demands to scale back policing, public constituencies still have limited knowledge … about policing alternatives. In survey experiments, we provide information about dontcallthepolice.com--a database of police … alternatives--and police violence statistics and evaluate their impact on respondents' stated likelihood of calling the police. We …

Whether police misconduct can be prevented depends partly on whether it can be predicted. We show police misconduct is …

to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …