dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago …, robberies, arrests and confiscated crime guns. We find evidence of considerable frictions in the underground market for guns in …

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight, accountability, and transparency, yet …, particularly police use of force. Second, we carry out a benefit-cost analysis of BWCs, as financial barriers are often cited as a … key impediment to adoption by police departments. Our baseline estimate for the benefit-cost ratio of BWCs is 4 …

likely to simply divert scarce police resources away from more effective approaches that research suggests is capable of … reducing real crime. One reform that we discuss concerns the legal standard of review in cases involving such pronounced racial …

greater burden of crime due to more lethal violence and an increased burglary rate; Nonetheless, a regime with greater scope …

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 … 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 … with recent, widely publicized instances of police misconduct; declines in public trust in police; and a rise in gun …

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight, accountability, and transparency, yet …, particularly police use of force. Second, we carry out a benefit-cost analysis of BWCs, as financial barriers are often cited as a … key impediment to adoption by police departments. Our baseline estimate for the benefit-cost ratio of BWCs is 4 …

Whether police misconduct can be prevented depends partly on whether it can be predicted. We show police misconduct is …