fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security … strategies changed, and as a result, the effects on crime rates are mostly large, negative and significant. There was a clear …, such as street robberies and burglaries were unaffected by the new security policy. …

This paper measures the impact of strengthening the security policy on the rural labour market in Colombia by …

affected crime by increasing the patrol police´s sense of accountability to the population and also possibly through higher …The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the … eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities into small …

Our goal in this paper is twofold: First, evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of late-night alcohol sales … in Bogotá; and second, quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime categories. Using … effects on several crime categories. We find that the restriction reduced deaths and injuries in car accidents and batteries …