We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we … investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers respond to a peer death by decreasing arrest activity for one …

agencies between 1996 and 2015, we implement a difference-in-difference approach in which police departments (which were … rights led to a substantial increase in violent incidents of misconduct among SOs, relative to police departments. The effect …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …

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 …