stop and search decisions of the police. The models describe the behavior of motorists and the police and provide empirical … tests to assess the question whether the police exhibit racial animus. However, existing studies have neglected the effect … of spatial and temporal aggregation of the data on the application of the tests. Using data from the Florida Highway …

This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context of police searches of … environment where police officers are heterogenous in their tastes for discrimination and in their costs of search and motorists … are heterogeneous in their benefits and costs from criminal behavior. We characterize the police and motorist decision …

targeting and better detection. We show that better targeting does not necessarily decrease the overall crime rate, although it … will decrease crime in the group that is targeted. Improved detection rates unambiguously decrease crime. Group … for the possibility that criminal passengers disguise themselves as members of low-crime groups. …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …

Using a unique new data set on police-involved homicides, we apply several discrimination tests to determine if white … police officers discriminate against black suspects. We find that the probability of an unarmed black suspect being killed by … a white police officer is not significantly greater than the probability of a black suspect being killed by a black …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …

On March 4, 2015, the Department of Justice released its scathing report of the Ferguson Police Department calling for … a system grounded in the principles of community policing and police legitimacy, in which people are equally protected …