We investigate if there is any effect on crime following the installation of public surveillance cameras. To do so, we … 2015. We highlight three main findings. First, there is a statistically significant decline in total crime after the … installation of the cameras. On average, total crime reports are 23.5% lower within the coverage zone following the installation of …

contact, and holds officers accountable for crime in their assigned area. The plan warranted a comprehensive training program … reduction in several types of crime attributable to the training program, ranging from around .13 of a standard deviation for … homicides to .18 of a standard deviation for brawls. These impacts are driven by very large effects in high crime areas and very …

We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … least one crime report. In the following periods, crimes decrease both in the place of the arrests and the surroundings …. With many treated grids and many places exposed to spillovers, these effects add up. On aggregate, the crime reduction …

target for criminal activities. The paper proposes an information channel through which crime distorts consumption decisions …; this channel is different in nature from the channel whereby crime acts as a direct tax on observable and stealable … consumption goods. More precisely, we argue that, in the presence of crime, individuals reduce their consumption of observable …