-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 …

We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the … 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 …

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight, accountability, and transparency, yet …, particularly police use of force. Second, we carry out a benefit-cost analysis of BWCs, as financial barriers are often cited as a … key impediment to adoption by police departments. Our baseline estimate for the benefit-cost ratio of BWCs is 4 …

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 …

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

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States ….g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian … hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory …

police officer safety, which we proxy with on-duty assaults on officers. Combining agency-level data on police officer on …) leads to a 1.3% reduction per police agency in on-duty assaults against police officers. Previously established benefits of … access to treatment on behavioral health extend to the work environment of police officers …

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

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 …

-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 …