More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its … between policing and arrests. During shift changes a peculiar redeployment of police patrols belonging to separate police … that criminals exploit these dips in police performance. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that incapacitation …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations … effects arise from incapacitation, crime displacement, or changes in employment of local police forces. Our results suggest …

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations … effects arise from incapacitation, crime displacement, or changes in employment of local police forces. Our results suggest …

Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police … reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform … substantially reduced the number of police stations. Combining a matching strategy with an event-study design, we do not find …

This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … wages in the legal labor market). Public security policies are defined as pairs of a size of the police force and an average …

police forces tasked with preventing crime. We study the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police - the first … professional force worldwide. Using newly digitized and geocoded crime and police data together with difference-indifferences and …This paper evaluates the effect on crime of creating a fundamental modern-day institution: centralized professional …

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 …

Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact … police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian behavior. Officer deaths cause … contrast, we find no evidence of an increase in crime or a change in victim reporting through 911 calls. There is also no …

presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. …