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 …

both proactive policing strategies and various forms of police misconduct. As a consequence, a growing body of research has … begun to examine the relationship between blacks' experiences with the police and their perceptions of police legitimacy … their particular experiences with the police. Drawing from a broader qualitative study of violence in the lives of African …