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Who Watches the Watchmen : Evidence of the Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on New York City Policing

Zamoff, Mitchell - 2020

A flurry of research examining the effect of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on policing has arrived at mixed and inconclusive set findings. We present a multi-year study of the precinct-by-precinct rollout of BWCs in the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the largest metropolitan police force in...

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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police

Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...

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