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The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime

Author(s) -

John M. MacDonald,

Jonathan Klick,

Ben Grunwald

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2171038

Subject(s) - criminology , police department , regression discontinuity design , investment (military) , discontinuity (linguistics) , violent crime , business , political science , sociology , law , mathematics , politics , mathematical analysis , statistics

Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the discontinuity in police force size at the geographic boundary of a private university police department to estimate the effect of the extra police services on crime. Extra police provided by the university generate approximately 45-60 percent fewer crimes in the surrounding neighborhood. These effects appear to be similar to other estimates in the literature.

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