| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w26774
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 26774
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| Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls |
| Mark Hoekstra; CarlyWill Sloan
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| 发表日期 | 2020-02-24
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult. This is in part because of selection, and in part because researchers often observe only interactions that end in use of force, necessitating nontrivial benchmarking assumptions. This paper addresses these problems by using data on officers dispatched to over 2 million 911 calls in two cities, neither of which allows for discretion in the dispatch process. Using a location-by-time fixed effects approach that isolates the random variation in officer race, we show white officers use force 60 percent more than black officers, and use gun force twice as often. To examine how civilian race affects use of force, we compare how white officers increase use of force as they are dispatched to more minority neighborhoods, compared to minority officers. Perhaps most strikingly, we show that while white and black officers use gun force at similar rates in white and racially mixed neighborhoods, white officers are five times as likely to use gun force in predominantly black neighborhoods. Similarly, white officers increase use of any force much more than minority officers when dispatched to more minority neighborhoods. Consequently, difference-in-differences estimates from individual officer fixed effect models indicate black (Hispanic) civilians are 30 - 60 (75 - 120) percent more likely to experience any use of force, and five times as likely to experience gun use of force, compared to if white officers scaled up force similarly to minority officers. These findings highlight race as an important determinant of police use of force, including and especially lethal force. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; Other
; Law and Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26774
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584448
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Mark Hoekstra,CarlyWill Sloan. Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls. 2020.
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