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 …

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 …

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 …

A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …

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 …

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 …

of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause …