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作者

Elisa Jácome

来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.128,P.

语言

英文

关键字

Immigration;Crime reporting;Immigration policy;Police effectiveness

作者单位

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, United States;Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, United States

摘要

Mistrust between immigrants and the police may undermine law enforcement’s ability to keep communities safe. This paper documents that immigration policies affect an individual’s willingness to report crime. I analyze the 2015 Priority Enforcement Program, which focused immigration enforcement on individuals convicted of serious crimes and shifted resources away from immigration-related offenses. I use data from the Dallas Police Department that include a complainant’s ethnicity to show that the number of violent and property crimes reported to the police by Hispanics increased by 4 percent after the introduction of PEP. These results suggest that reducing enforcement of individuals who do not pose a threat to public safety can potentially improve trust between immigrant communities and the police.