deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … these increases in patrolling were accompanied by corresponding decreases in crime. The standard errors are small enough to …

public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors … overall crime between 4.9% and 5.7%, depending on the specification. Our results further suggest that more accountable mayors …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its …

This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … form estimates or traditional partial equilibrium, static models of crime. Equilibrium effects can be particularly relevant …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no … apparent threshold of arrest decline beyond which crime increases. Our findings suggest that enforcement activity can be …

This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification … not reduce crime rates for violent offenses or property offenses. Our estimates are small and precise, so we can rule out …

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention the Street Crime Initiative that was introduced in England and … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces …

presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. -- crime ; police …