An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas … by police officers, we first document exogenous and discontinuous changes in patrolling intensity. We do not find that …

corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …

the Liberia National Police's innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the … international and domestic support it received in doing so. In particular, the paper analyses Liberia National Police's efforts to … (1) recruit female police officers and (2) train a specialized unit to address gender-related crimes. Ambitious …

between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …

wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average … length of sentences. We propose an original micro-founded police production function linking the level of police expenditures …