Policing
“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...
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...
Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List
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...
How to Get Police Reform Done? Use Direct Democracy
Instead of just imploring their representatives to fix things, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to take charge and promote meaningful policing...
