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 …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …

This paper analyzes the impact of immigrant deportations on local crime and police efficiency. Our identification … meaningful effects. We do not find evidence that SC increased either police effectiveness in solving crimes or local police …

agencies between 1996 and 2015, we implement a difference-in-difference approach in which police departments (which were … rights led to a substantial increase in violent incidents of misconduct among SOs, relative to police departments. The effect …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …