Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the … protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated … experts like community organizers and police experts, who link the market responses to reforms, not budget cuts. An experiment …

using a randomized controlled trial with 2,070 officers from the Chicago Police Department. In a series of lab assessments …

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over …

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an innovative police patrol program on sexual … harassment in public spaces in Hyderabad, India. In collaboration with the Hyderabad City Police, we randomized both exposure to … police patrols and the visibility of officers by deploying both uniformed and undercover personnel to hotspots. We …

the Chicago Police Department's rotational duty calendar to obtain plausibly exogenous variation in the set of officers … analyze two events that increased the transparency of police misconduct through public disclosure of complaint records and …

unemployment rate, to decreases (increases) in per capita real GDP and to decreases (increases) in the police force. The same …

data from the Boston Police Department. Consistent with preference-based discrimination, our baseline results demonstrate …

allow police agencies to keep a substantial fraction of assets that they seize in drug arrests. By adjusting their own … allocations to police budgets, however, county governments can effectively undermine these incentives, capturing the additional … resources for other uses. We use a rich new data set on police seizures and county spending to explore the reactions of both …