Although research has shown that court-ordered hiring quotas increase the number of minority police officers in … litigated cities, there has been little insight into how workforce diversity, or lack thereof, may impact police violence … against civilians. Using an event study framework, we find that the threat of affirmative action litigation reduces police …

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 …

We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we … investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers respond to a peer death by decreasing arrest activity for one …

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 …

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 …

police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by … reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality. Days in which an officer works a second job after their police shift …

interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of … Afghanistan is a democracy; (2) whether the police should resolve disputes; (3) whether members of parliament provide services …

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 …