An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas … by police officers, we first document exogenous and discontinuous changes in patrolling intensity. We do not find that …

prefer fighting certain type of crimes more intensely, rather than increasing police efficiency overall. Lastly, our results … show that the post-reform benefits we observe dissolve when the management of local police has to be coordinated among …

This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … having as instrumental variable the individual distance to police stations. We explore data from the Confidence in Justice … registered reduces confidence on police. Such results are more effusively in some crimes like drug dealing and rape. Exploring …

Police agencies devote vast resources to minimising the time that it takes them to attend the scene of a crime. Despite … this, the long-standing consensus is that police response time has no meaningful effect on the likelihood of catching … offenders. We revisit this question using a uniquely rich dataset from the Greater Manchester Police. To identify causal effects …

This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … having as instrumental variable the individual distance to police stations. We explore data from the Confidence in Justice … registered reduces confidence on police. Such results are more effusively in some crimes like drug dealing and rape. Exploring …

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street … circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas … by police officers, we first document exogenous and discontinuous changes in patrolling intensity. We do not find that …

We still know very little about the incentives of police, often due to data constraints and the underlying policy … consistent with police treating enforcement effort and punishment severity as complementary. I also find that citywide crime and …

Police unions have garnered the attention of the media and some scholars in recent years. That attention has often … focused on exploring the seemingly inexplicable power of police unions to shield problem officers from accountability as a … matter of routine. This paper aims to explain that police union power did not surreptitiously arrive on the doorsteps of …