Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Economics · May 1, 2025
This article examines language patterns in U.S. television news coverage of police killings. First, we document that the media use syntactic structures—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—that obscure responsibility more often in ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of political science · February 2025
Partisans are divided on policing policy, which may affect officer behavior. We merge rosters from 99 of the 100 largest local U.S. agencies-over one third of local law enforcement agents nationwide-with voter files to study police partisanship. Police ske ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Economics · July 1, 2024
We study the effect of temperature on police-involved civilian deaths in the U.S. from 2000 to 2016. We show that both violent crimes and the number of officers assaulted or killed increase on warmer days (≥17°C), indicating greater personal danger to offi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Labor Economics · January 1, 2024
There is evidence showing racial bias in firms’ hiring decisions, but less is known about bias in career recognition. We construct a dataset from the second-largest US police department to estimate the Black-white gap in award nominations. Leveraging insti ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Journal Economic Policy · January 1, 2023
We study the link between police officers’ on-duty injuries and their peers’ force use using a network of officers who attended the police academy together through a random lottery. On-duty injuries increase the probability of officers using force by 7 per ...
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