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quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain …. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks …
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An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas …
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have arisen around the media and law enforcement such as the incidents leading to the George Floyd protests and the Defund-the-Police … campaigns targeting police practices have had on law enforcement in general and on the tourism industry in particular …In Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability, author Peter Tarlow examines the US-Mexico border crisis …
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In 2016 the city of Bogotá doubled police patrols and intensified city services on high-crime streets. They did so … based on a policy and criminological consensus that such place-based programs not only decrease crime, but also have … randomly assigned 1,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police patrols, greater municipal services, both, or neither …
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Cities target police patrols and public services to control crime. What are the direct and spillover effects of such …,919 streets to either 8 months of doubled police patrols, greater municipal services, both, or neither. We study how crime … responds to intensifying normal state presence in moderate- to high-crime streets, and what this implies about criminal …
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An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas …
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