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 …

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 …

. This paper considers the downstream consequences of bail setting in an urban, southern police court in the 1910s. I find …

We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009 …-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities - occurred in the mid-2000s. We show these measures impacted on …

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 …