This report summarizes the results of a project which investigated the time series interrelationships between crime …

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily … simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities … crime more so than property crime …

Cities target police patrols and public services to control crime. What are the direct and spillover effects of such …,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police patrols, greater municipal services, both, or neither. We study how crime … responds to intensifying normal state presence in moderate- to high-crime streets, and what this implies about criminal …

examinations, city crime rates appear unaffected by litigation. However, litigation lowers slightly both arrests per crime and the …

This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some …