Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Witt, Robert - School of Economics, University of Surrey - 2008
In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of police officers to … central London boroughs as compared to outer London – in fact, police deployment in central London increased by over 30 …