create the very first police department, the phrase that the ‘police are the public, and the public are the police' was …. Unwittingly perhaps, this set the stage for efforts to create modern day police departments that are inclusive of the general … countries, the need to recruit a more ethnically and racially diverse police service has been a pressing concern for several …

It is difficult to know if racial discrepancies in police stop and search data are caused by racial bias or statistical … discrimination. In part, this is due to uncertainty over the benchmark of unbiased police behavior: do officers aim to maximize … arrests or to minimize crime? In this paper, I compare models of the two police objectives to data from U.S. cities. Empirical …

the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …, social capital, and police intensity consistent with our theoretical predictions. Based on our analysis, we derive a range of …

the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed panel data from the …, social capital, and police intensity consistent with our theoretical predictions. Based on our analysis, we derive a range of …

to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States ….g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian … hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory …

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 …

on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on publicly traded firms contracting with the police. It is unclear … whether the BLM uprisings were likely to increase or decrease market valuations of firms contracting heavily with police … because of the increased interest in reforming the police, fears over rising crime, and pushes to "defund the police". We find …

using a randomized controlled trial with 2,070 officers from the Chicago Police Department. In a series of lab assessments …

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over …