In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention the Street Crime Initiative that was introduced in England and … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces …

between the racial composition of a city's police force and the racial patterns of arrests and crime. Increases in the number … police officers has a less clear-cut impact on crime rates. It appears that own-race policing may be more effective in … reducing property crime, but no systematic differences are observed for violent crime. These results are consistent either with …