data from the Boston Police Department. Consistent with preference-based discrimination, our baseline results demonstrate …

allow police agencies to keep a substantial fraction of assets that they seize in drug arrests. By adjusting their own … allocations to police budgets, however, county governments can effectively undermine these incentives, capturing the additional … resources for other uses. We use a rich new data set on police seizures and county spending to explore the reactions of both …

We analyze data on NYPD's "stop and frisk program" in an effort to identify racial bias on the part of the police … latter are being stopped despite being a "less productive stop" for a police officer …

While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult … highlight race as an important determinant of police use of force, including and especially lethal force …

This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are … more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that … factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which police officers …

Police use of force – particularly lethal force – is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To … understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive …

between the racial composition of a city's police force and the racial patterns of arrests and crime. Increases in the number … of minority police are associated with significant increases in arrests of whites, but have little impact on arrests of … police officers has a less clear-cut impact on crime rates. It appears that own-race policing may be more effective in …

During traffic stops, police search black and Hispanic motorists more often than white motorists, yet those searches …

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