COPS and crime

被引：207

作者：

Evans, William N. ^{[1
]}

Owens, Emily G.

机构：

[1] Univ Maryland, Dept Econ, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[2] Univ Maryland, Maryland Populat Res Ctr, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[3] Natl Bur Econ Res, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS | 2007年 / 91卷 / 1-2期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

economics of crime; police; COPS program; flypaper effect; intergovernmental grants;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.05.014

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 established the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program that provided grants to states and localities to pay up to 75% of the cost for new police hires for 3 years. To date, the COPS program has awarded almost $5 billion in hiring grants paying for 64,000 new police officers. We use annual data from 1990 through 2001 from 2074 cities with populations in excess of 10,000 to show that for each officer paid for by grant funds, the size of the force expands by 0.70 officers. The size of COPS grants are correlated with population and crime rates, but not the pre-COPS time trends in crime rates or the size of the police force. This allows us to use the size of COPS grants as an instrument for the size of the police force in regressions where crime is the outcome of interest. These models indicate that police added to the force by COPS generated statistically significant reductions in auto thefts, burglaries, robberies, and aggravated assaults. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：181 / 201

页数：21