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Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces After a Terrorist Attack
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An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish institutions received police protection. Thus, this hideous event induced a geographical allocation of police forces that can be presumed exogenous in a crime regression. Using data on the location of car thefts before and after the attack, we find a large deterrent effect of observable police on crime. The effect is local, with no appreciable impact outside the narrow area in which the police are deployed.
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- Authors
- Di Tella, R., & Schargrodsky, E.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2004-02-01
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 115-133
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2104814418
- Cited by
- 796
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 77.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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