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 …

Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police … substantially reduced the number of police stations. Combining a matching strategy with an event-study design, we do not find …

State-wide reports on police traffic stops and searches summarize very large populations, making them potentially … statistics conflate searches involving different levels of police discretion, standard tests for racial bias are not applicable …. This article develops a model of police search decisions that allows for nondiscretionary searches and derives tests for …

Police accountability is essential to uphold the social contract. Monitoring the monitors is, however, not without … difficulty. This paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the … underreporting of police killings. Our results show that US counties in which law enforcement can certify the cause of death …