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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without … difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the … underreporting of police killings. Our results show that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death …
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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 …
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renewal of a national identification card by the Bolivian Police. The first experiment arises from the random assignment of … both police officers and applicants to a manual or digital renewal process, which is identical in all aspects except that … arises by the existence of technical failures within the digital renewal process, which allows police officers to change from …
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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 …
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