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

African-American motorists may adjust their driving in response to increased scrutiny by police. In daylight, when …

create the very first police department, the phrase that the ‘police are the public, and the public are the police' was …. Unwittingly perhaps, this set the stage for efforts to create modern day police departments that are inclusive of the general … countries, the need to recruit a more ethnically and racially diverse police service has been a pressing concern for several …

It is difficult to know if racial discrepancies in police stop and search data are caused by racial bias or statistical … discrimination. In part, this is due to uncertainty over the benchmark of unbiased police behavior: do officers aim to maximize … arrests or to minimize crime? In this paper, I compare models of the two police objectives to data from U.S. cities. Empirical …

Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the … protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated … experts like community organizers and police experts, who link the market responses to reforms, not budget cuts. An experiment …

set findings. We present a multi-year study of the precinct-by-precinct rollout of BWCs in the New York City Police … Department (NYPD), the largest metropolitan police force in the United States. Our study adds meaningfully to the prior body of … work and begins to clarify some of the discord within it, particularly with respect to large urban police departments. We …

The standard economic model of police stops implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of stops … or searches per officer falls, ceteris paribus. We provide empirical corroboration of such optimizing models of police … explanations, including changes in street population, crime, police allocation, and policing intensity. We find mixed evidence …

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 …