to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. National survey data also indicate that victims of crime became less likely to report …

effects of officer experience on neighborhood crime. Equalizing officer seniority across districts would reduce violent crime … rate by 4.6 percent and significantly decrease inequality in crime, discretionary arrests, and officer use of force across …

-or-Practice" investigations on crime and policing. For investigations that were not preceded by "viral" incidents of deadly force, investigations …, on average, led to a statistically significant reduction in homicides and total crime. In stark contrast, all … homicides and total crime. We estimate that these investigations caused almost 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess …

Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The … statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely … uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across cities. The ups and downs of crime have a considerable effect on …

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

asymmetric response of crime. In this paper we use three different data sets and three different empirical methodologies to … document this previously-unnoticed regularity. Using nonparametric methods we show that the behavior of property crime is … data from New York City we demonstrate that property crime reacts more (less) strongly to increases (decreases) in the …

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 … reducing property crime, but no systematic differences are observed for violent crime. These results are consistent either with …