Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-profile violence against Black civilians and calls for systemic change into shareholder gains and additional revenues for police … on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on publicly traded firms contracting with the police. It is unclear … whether the BLM uprisings were likely to increase or decrease market valuations of firms contracting heavily with police …