Replication data for: Peacekeeping Force: Effects of Providing Tactical Equipment to Local Law Enforcement

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Matthew C. Harris; Jinseong Park; Donald J. Bruce; Matthew N. Murray

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Project Citation:

Harris, Matthew C., Park, Jinseong, Bruce, Donald J., and Murray, Matthew N. Replication data for: Peacekeeping Force: Effects of Providing Tactical Equipment to Local Law Enforcement. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114674V1

Project Description

Summary: We provide the first local level empirical analysis of the causal effects of providing military equipment to local police. Employing a novel combination of publicly available county-year panel data matched to hand-collected data on citizen complaints, we investigate the effects of acquiring tactical weapons, optics, and vehicles on citizen complaints, assaults on police officers, and offender deaths. For causal identification, we exploit exogenous variation in equipment availability and cost-shifting institutional aspects of the 1033 Program. Our results indicate that these items have generally positive effects: reduced citizen complaints, reduced assaults on officers, increased drug crime arrests, and no increases in offender deaths.

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JEL Classification:
H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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