The standard economic model of police stops implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of stops … or searches per officer falls, ceteris paribus. We provide empirical corroboration of such optimizing models of police … explanations, including changes in street population, crime, police allocation, and policing intensity. We find mixed evidence …

on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on publicly traded firms contracting with the police. It is unclear … whether the BLM uprisings were likely to increase or decrease market valuations of firms contracting heavily with police … because of the increased interest in reforming the police, fears over rising crime, and pushes to "defund the police". We find …

Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the … protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated … experts like community organizers and police experts, who link the market responses to reforms, not budget cuts. An experiment …

using a randomized controlled trial with 2,070 officers from the Chicago Police Department. In a series of lab assessments …

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over …

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an innovative police patrol program on sexual … harassment in public spaces in Hyderabad, India. In collaboration with the Hyderabad City Police, we randomized both exposure to … police patrols and the visibility of officers by deploying both uniformed and undercover personnel to hotspots. We …

their victimization to law enforcement due to mistrust of police. Our results suggest that high-profile acts of police … attitudes towards the police …

wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political … police officers, and individual level data on police officers from Decennial Censuses. The empirical results from both data …

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 …

, 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 … drug use and murders or assaults, holding constant arrest rates and police. In addition, we found evidence of police …