Police reform
How Financial Contracting Could Help the Police Force Manage Its Aims More Effectively
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...
“Drive and Wave”: In Response to 1998 Police Reform, LAPD Officers Disengaged from Policing
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...
Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests
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...
Prison Labor Can Create Perverse Incentives for Incarceration and Reduce Trust in Legal Institutions
Government proponents of prison labor should be mindful of the potential for negative effects, including increased incarceration rates and citizens’ deteriorating views on state...
Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient...
