RT Article
T1 Did de‐policing cause the increase in homicide rates?
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 18
IS 1
SP 47
OP 49
A1 Rosenfeld, Richard 1948-2024
A1 Wallmann, Joel
A2 Wallmann, Joel
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1665682590
AB Widespread protests and demands for accountability in the wake of broadly publicized police killings of unarmed civilians coincided with the marked upturn in homicide levels, especially in large U.S. cities, in 2015. Many observers, including prominent political figures, claimed that de‐policing caused the homicide rate to rise: Fearing increased legal liability and publicity, the police employed less proactive enforcement and made fewer arrests, producing an increase in homicide levels. We use structural equation modeling to estimate the simultaneous relationship between arrest and homicide rates between 2010 and 2015 in 53 large cities. We find no evidence of an effect of arrest rates on city homicide rates for any offense category for any year in this period, including 2015, the year of the spike in homicide levels.
K1 Arrests
K1 Depolicing
K1 Homicide
K1 Verhaftungen
K1 Festnahmen
K1 Stellenabbau
K1 Polizisten
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12414