We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009 …-10. Differences in ill-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force …-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill …

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 …

We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the … neighborhoods. Moreover, this assignment can be achieved in a revenue-neutral way while resulting in small welfare gains for police …

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) have been the subject of much research on how the technology's enhanced documentation … of police/citizen interactions impact police behavior. Less attention has been paid to how BWC recordings affect the … adjudication of citizen complaints against the police. We employ citizen complaint data from the Chicago Police Department and …

two levers: (1) police resources, and (2) policing strategies or policies, historically focused on crime control but …How can we get more 'output,' and of the right sort, from policing? The question has only taken on greater importance … with recent, widely publicized instances of police misconduct; declines in public trust in police; and a rise in gun …

hundred municipal police departments. The timing of unionization in these departments clearly indicates that unionization … municipalities and their police is virtually nonexistant. Moreover, the proportional hazards analysis that controls for the effects … important determinant of unionization among police. Among different types of bargaining policies, "duty-to-bargain" provisions …

. Examining the strike activity and unionization rates of some 600 nonunion municipal police departments from 1972 to 1978, this … rights for municipal police. However, these strikes do not increase the unionization propensities of these police departments …

in collective bargaining laws across states. The model is estimated using data on over 800 municipal police departments …

While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult … highlight race as an important determinant of police use of force, including and especially lethal force …

Should police activity be narrowly focused and high force, or widely-dispersed but of moderate intensity? Critics of … intense "hot spot" policing argue it primarily displaces, not reduces, crime. But if learning about enforcement takes time …, the police may take advantage of this period to intervene intensively in the most productive location. We propose a multi …