on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on publicly traded firms contracting with the police. It is unclear … whether the BLM uprisings were likely to increase or decrease market valuations of firms contracting heavily with police … because of the increased interest in reforming the police, fears over rising crime, and pushes to "defund the police". We find …

In Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability, author Peter Tarlow examines the US-Mexico border crisis … of police corruption and cartels on the tourism industry. Presenting detailed case studies of the U.S. cities of Chicago … policing in the US and Mexico, exploring the dangers, hopes and recommendations for the future. The way a state's police force …

We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over …

While police brutality has sparked demands to scale back policing, public constituencies still have limited knowledge … about policing alternatives. In survey experiments, we provide information about dontcallthepolice.com--a database of police … alternatives--and police violence statistics and evaluate their impact on respondents' stated likelihood of calling the police. We …

Whether police misconduct can be prevented depends partly on whether it can be predicted. We show police misconduct is …

to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 … a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police …