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 …

This report summarizes the results of a project which investigated the time series interrelationships between crime …, drug use, police, and arrests in New York City. We use monthly data from 1970 through 1990 for New York City. We plot the … individual time series for five different non-drug crimes, arrest rates for these crimes, drug deaths, number of police officers …

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 … over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected estimates of the police elasticity of the cost-weighted sum of …

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 …

-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on municipal police departments. My best estimate of the effect of court-ordered affirmative …. Evidence on police performance is mixed. Despite substantial black-white test score differences on police department entrance … 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 … neighborhoods (concentrated protection), the city becomes segregated. When the police are evenly deployed across the city (dispersed …

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

The 1984 federal Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA) included a provision that permitted local law enforcement … forfeited assets influenced crime and police incentives by taking advantage of pre-existing differences in state level civil … asset forfeiture law and the timing of the CCCA. We find that after the CCCA was enacted crime fell about 17 percent in …

Previous empirical studies have typically uncovered little evidence that police reduce crime. One problem with those … studies is a failure to adequately deal with the simultaneity between police and crime: while police may or may not reduce … crime, there is little doubt that expenditures on police forces are an increasing function of the crime rate. In this study …