Economic theory predicts that a rise in police presence will reduce criminal activity. However several studies in the … literature have found mixed results. This study adds to the literature by exploring the relationship between the size of police … that increasing the police force is negatively associated with crime against firms. Results are confirmed using a panel of …

consider law enforcement response to domestic violence calls because police officers often serve as the gateway to the legal … police responses to domestic violence calls. The gap between law and practice is expounded by interposing the legal … obligations provided by Illinois statute with the narratives of police inaction and failure to arrest. Then, a method of …

effects of more police officers on crime rates. We add to the relatively thin literature on the impacts of clearance rates … findings reflect the importance of productivity of the police force in terms of solving crimes and the possibility that hiring … of police officers will not necessarily result in lower crime rates …

The Plan Nacional de Vigilancia Comunitaria por Cuadrantes (PNVCC) is a new police patrolling program introduced in the … eight major cities of Colombia in 2010 by the National Police. The strategy divides the largest cities into small … for over 9,000 police officers aimed at improving interpersonal skills and implementation of the new patrolling protocols …

useful for three reasons. First, third-party data collection prevents manipulation by individual police officers and law … enforcement agencies. Second, it assures that police behavioral trends are actually identified. Lastly, third-party data …

Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of … extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the … discontinuity in police force size at the geographic boundary of a private university police department to estimate the effect of …

An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate significant causal effects of police on crime. Following a … institutions (including schools, synagogues, mosques, cemeteries and clubs) were given 24-hour police surveillance. Thus, this … hideous event induced a geographical allocation of police forces that can be presumed exogenous in a crime regression. Using …

Recently a considerable popular debate has been dedicated to the issue of “police militarization”. We investigate …

bystanders' willingness to report crimes to the police, using data from survey experiments conducted in Russia and Georgia. We …