The Distribution of Police Protection

This paper investigates the distribution of police protection in the United States by race and class. By examining police employment and demographic data for every general-service police jurisdiction in the US, I find that poor and heavily-nonwhite jurisdictions employ far fewer officers per crime t...

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Main Author: Thacher, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2011, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 275-298
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