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作者

Richard T. Boylan

来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.130,P.

语言

英文

关键字

Police;Outsourcing;Crime;Spending;H41;H72;H76;H77;K42

作者单位

Rice University, Department of Economics, MS#22, 6100 S. Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA;Rice University, Department of Economics, MS#22, 6100 S. Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA

摘要

This paper finds that disbanding police departments leads to fewer police-related deaths, fewer reported crimes, and lower law enforcement expenditures. However, the number of crimes reported by the sheriff for the entire county increases by an amount commensurate to the decrease in the number of crimes reported by cities that disbanded their police department. Furthermore, disbanding police departments is associated with an increase in county sheriffs spending which offsets the city savings. Thus, disbanding police departments does not appear to impact overall crime, shifts responsibility for law enforcement onto other governments, and reduces the available information about cities’ crimes.