Research Summary De‐escalation training has been widely implemented by US police
agencies in the wake of adverse public reaction to recent controversial police use‐of‐force …

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight,
accountability, and transparency, yet there remains uncertainty about their impacts on …

Existing research shows that distrust of the police is widespread and consequential for
public safety. However, there is a shortage of interventions that demonstrably reduce …

Research Summary We analyzed 990 police fatal shootings using data compiled by The
Washington Post in 2015. After first providing a basic descriptive analysis of these shootings …

Research Summary In 2017, we published an essay (Nagin & Telep, 2017) that challenged
the widely held view that research had plausibly demonstrated that procedurally just …

We report novel empirical estimates of the race-specific effects of larger police forces in the
United States. Each additional police officer abates approximately 0.1 homicides. In per …

We study estimation of causal effects in staggered-rollout designs—that is, settings where
there is staggered treatment adoption and the timing of treatment is as good as randomly …

Purpose We argue that the police have been adversely impacted by Ferguson-related
negative publicity in ways beyond the supposed increase in crime (eg, reduced motivation …

Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 US
adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in …

The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing
benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level …