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 …

consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy … environment. Using geocoded crime data and a novel source of within-city spatial and temporal variation in punishment severity, I …