Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight, accountability, and transparency, yet …, particularly police use of force. Second, we carry out a benefit-cost analysis of BWCs, as financial barriers are often cited as a … key impediment to adoption by police departments. Our baseline estimate for the benefit-cost ratio of BWCs is 4 …

crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. …Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … self-petition rate. In contrast, sanctuary policies limiting the cooperation of police with immigration authorities have …

We argue that the key impediment to accurate measurement of the effect of police on crime is not necessarily … simultaneity bias, but bias due to mismeasurement of police. Using a new panel data set on crime in medium to large U.S. cities … over 1960- 2010, we obtain measurement error corrected estimates of the police elasticity of the cost-weighted sum of …

in reducing such barriers if police continue to treat syringe possession as a crime or evidence of criminal activity …. Despite the integral role of police officers in health policy implementation, little is known of their knowledge of, attitudes … toward, and enforcement response to harm-minimization schemes. We conducted qualitative interviews with 14 police officers in …