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 …

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 …

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave … generally larger for persistent protests and those accompanied by media reports of violence. Furthermore, we find no evidence …

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 …

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 …

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

We study the impact of a medical breakthrough (HAART) on domestic violence and illicit drug use among low-income women … introduced affected how strongly their experience of domestic violence or drug use responded to the breakthrough. Immune system … introduction reduced domestic violence and illicit drug use. To explain our estimates, we treat health as a form of human capital …