presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … 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 …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification … not reduce crime rates for violent offenses or property offenses. Our estimates are small and precise, so we can rule out … meaningful effects. We do not find evidence that SC increased either police effectiveness in solving crimes or local police …

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas …

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …

lack of confidence in the police and fear they might be asked about their immigration status or that of relatives and … the cooperation of local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities, affect domestic homicide rates – a crime … laws in place. These findings are suggestive of the important role of policies that increase community trust in the police …

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved …

crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants …Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … self-petition rate. In contrast, sanctuary policies limiting the cooperation of police with immigration authorities have …

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 …

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 …