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

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 …

self-petition rate. In contrast, sanctuary policies limiting the cooperation of police with immigration authorities have … crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. …

impact on moral behavior. The choice context in the experiment is whether subjects inflict a painful electric shock on …

impact on moral behavior. The choice context in the experiment is whether subjects inict a painful electric shock on another …

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an enforcement agency to detect and …