data from the Boston Police Department. Consistent with preference-based discrimination, our baseline results demonstrate …

victimization of minorities and police accountability and presenting relevant perspectives on a global and cross-cultural scale …

African-American motorists may adjust their driving in response to increased scrutiny by police. In daylight, when …

State-wide reports on police traffic stops and searches summarize very large populations, making them potentially … statistics conflate searches involving different levels of police discretion, standard tests for racial bias are not applicable …. This article develops a model of police search decisions that allows for nondiscretionary searches and derives tests for …

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …