Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: The Geography of Police Stops

This paper uses state police stop data in Texas to assess patrol activity. We find that both the types of stops and allocation of resources over space change in darkness relative to daylight, and that the changes in stop type and manpower allocation are correlated within police officers. We also fin...

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Published in:AEA papers and proceedings 2019-05, Vol.109, p.143-147
Main Authors: Kalinowski, Jesse J., Ross, Matthew B., Ross, Stephen L.
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