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Police Reform

In the aftermath of the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis and the ensuing global outrage, an unprecedented focus on the causes of police violence and misconduct has emerged. Should the police be “defunded,” as many protesters demand, or should US law enforcement reformed in other ways? ProMarket investigates.

Commentary

How Financial Contracting Could Help the Police Force Manage Its Aims More Effectively

Hamid Mehran
Hamid Mehran proposes funded deferred pay, an incentive structure to mitigate the risk and costs of police misconduct. To be sure, police are doing a...
News

“Drive and Wave”: In Response to 1998 Police Reform, LAPD Officers Disengaged from Policing

Jana Kasperkevic
A new paper documents how LAPD officers responded to two police reforms—one in 1998 and one in late 2002. It finds that when public...
Income Inequality

Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

Pauline Grosjean
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that a Black...
News

Prison Labor Can Create Perverse Incentives for Incarceration and Reduce Trust in Legal Institutions

Belinda Archibong
Government proponents of prison labor should be mindful of the potential for negative effects, including increased incarceration rates and citizens’ deteriorating views on state...
News

Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory

Felipe Goncalves
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient...
News

What is the Connection Between Collective Bargaining and Police Officer Misconduct? Evidence from Florida

Dhammika Dharmapala
A working paper finds that after sheriffs’ deputies in Florida were allowed to unionize, violent incidents increased by 40 percent. In the aftermath of the...
Income Inequality

Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police. "Defund the police" has...
Commentary

How to Get Police Reform Done? Use Direct Democracy

John G. Matsusaka
Instead of just imploring their representatives to fix things, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to take charge and promote meaningful policing...
Commentary

Break Up the Police

Luigi Zingales
In most cities in America, it is not the police that answers to the mayors, but the mayors to the police. The only solution...

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