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 …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … percent in the six weeks following the July 7 bombings. During this time crime fell significantly in central relative to outer … London. Study of the timing of the crime reductions and their magnitude, the types of crime which were more likely to be …