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 …

the Chicago Police Department's rotational duty calendar to obtain plausibly exogenous variation in the set of officers … analyze two events that increased the transparency of police misconduct through public disclosure of complaint records and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We examine class disparities and discrimination in police searches and stops using data on traffic stops conducted by …

calls involving mental illness, homelessness, and addiction either instead of or in addition to police officers. We use two … incidents without coercive measures. CAHOOTS is most often dispatched to the same calls as the police, acting as a supplement … that crisis response teams play an important role as a complement to the police rather than acting only as substitutes …