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

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data …

omitted ability and family background variables interact in the estimation of returns. On the methodological front, we propose … a semi-parametric estimation approach based on balancing scores and mixture models, in particular allowing for …