tout their crime reduction effects, while detractors claim they undermine human rights. We experimentally evaluate a … military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the country’s most violent cities. The intervention involved recurring …, intensive military patrols targeting crime hotspots, randomly assigned at the city block level. Using administrative crime and …

We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … least one crime report. In the following periods, crimes decrease both in the place of the arrests and the surroundings …. With many treated grids and many places exposed to spillovers, these effects add up. On aggregate, the crime reduction …

eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities into small … contact, and holds officers accountable for crime in their assigned area. The plan warranted a comprehensive training program … reduction in several types of crime attributable to the training program, ranging from around .13 of a standard deviation for …

We study the effects of broken windows policing on crime using geo-located crime and arrest reports for 80 Colombian … least one crime report. In the following periods, crimes decrease both in the place of the arrests and the surroundings …. With many treated grids and many places exposed to spillovers, these effects add up. On aggregate, the crime reduction …

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 …

More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its …