Abstract How has Black Lives Matter (BLM) influenced police lethal force? An event study
design finds census places with early BLM protests experienced a 10% to 15% decrease in …

We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public
safety. Specifically, we investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers …

Can political rallies affect the behavior of law enforcement officers toward racial minorities?
Using data from 35 million traffic stops, we show that the probability that a stopped driver is …

Evidence on how hot spot policing affects community members' views of police is very
limited and inconclusive. Scholars have thus called for further study of community attitudes …

Objectives: The police killing of George Floyd energized the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social
movement across the United States in the summer of 2020. We test the impact on public …

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars
have shown that criminal legal contact reduces turnout and that criminalization pushes …

This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police
killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is …

The effect of neighbourhood police on citizens' welfare is poorly understood. Yet, this is a
key parameter in evaluating the impacts of reductions of police spending. I exploit a large …

Mistrust between immigrants and the police may undermine law enforcement's ability to
keep communities safe. This paper documents that immigration policies affect an individual's …

Does police oversight increase crime? Studies examining this relationship often rely on
major scandals as shocks, but the simultaneous effect of public outrage on officer behavior …