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Algorithms, Human Decision-Making and Predictive Policing

Phillips, Peter J.; Pohl, Gabriela - 2021

Given their technical sophistication, it is easy to overlook the human choices that underpin predictive policing algorithms and, importantly, the basic structures of decision theory that it embeds. To make a problem amenable to algorithmic computation, the problem must be transformed, often...

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Gender, crime and punishment: evidence from women police stations in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

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Gender, crime and punishment : evidence from women police stations in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

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Gun violence in the U.S. : correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

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 …

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in Los Angeles

Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K. - 2020

-opening. DV calls to police and to the hotline increased during the initial shutdown, but DV crimes decreased, as did arrests for … calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …

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Gun violence in the U.S. : correlates and causes

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Seiffert, Sebastian - 2017

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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures

Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2019 - This draft: September 12, 2019

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 …

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Collective bargaining and police misconduct : evidence from Florida

Dharmapala, Dhammika; McAdams, Richard H.; Rappaport, John - 2019 - This version: May 2019

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 …

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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures

Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2019 - This draft: September 12, 2019

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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures

Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2018

Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police … substantially reduced the number of police stations. Combining a matching strategy with an event-study design, we do not find …

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