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 …

with recent, widely publicized instances of police misconduct; declines in public trust in police; and a rise in gun … two levers: (1) police resources, and (2) policing strategies or policies, historically focused on crime control but … three types of evidence. First, we show there is substantial variability in violent crime and police use of force both …

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 …, the police may take advantage of this period to intervene intensively in the most productive location. We propose a multi … on an anti-drunken driving campaign in Rajasthan, India. In each police station, sobriety checkpoints were either rotated …

Using data from the New York City Police Department's Stop-and-Frisk program, we evaluate the impact of a specific … baseline level. Further, evidence suggests that these impacts were larger in magnitude in police precincts that have a higher … concentration of mosques. Our results are consistent with profiling by police officers leading to low-productivity stops, but we …