functional - that it evolved as a form of 'psychological and biological police' to enforce cooperation in economic production and …

Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … - the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the …

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 … cognitive aspects of policing and demonstrate the power of using behaviorally informed approaches to improve officer decision …

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 …