An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas … by police officers, we first document exogenous and discontinuous changes in patrolling intensity. We do not find that …

to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January …-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early spike in police calls disappears around mid-April, coinciding with the …

self-petition rate. In contrast, sanctuary policies limiting the cooperation of police with immigration authorities have … crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. …

between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …

wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average … length of sentences. We propose an original micro-founded police production function linking the level of police expenditures …

prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results … show that the post-reform benefits we observe dissolve when the management of local police has to be coordinated among …

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces … significantly in SCI police forces relative to non-SCI forces after the initiative was introduced. Moreover, the policy seems to …

ticketing officers, male motorists, those driving old vehicles, and minority neighborhoods. -- Police discretion ; disparate …

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. -- crime ; police …

enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool …-subject pool, police commissioners cooperate significantly more in both games. With exogenous institutions, police commissioners … bear a higher burden of punishment costs than non-police subjects. When the norm enforcement institution is endogenous, all …