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Data and Code for: Does (all) Police Violence Cause De-policing? Evidence from George Floyd and Police Shootings in Minneapolis

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Reem Zaiour, University of California, Davis; Maya Mikdash, Texas A&M University

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Project Citation:

Zaiour, Reem , and Mikdash, Maya. Data and Code for: Does (all) Police Violence Cause De-policing? Evidence from George Floyd and Police Shootings in Minneapolis. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-05-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E163541V1

Project Description

Summary: We test for a “Ferguson Effect” by studying how police effort responds to different incidents of police violence. We do so using two settings in Minneapolis: (1) George Floyd’s murder, and (2) police-involved shootings. We find that following George Floyd’s death, arrests and police-initiated calls decreased by 61 and 69 percent, respectively. By comparison, arrests and police-initiated calls decreased by 3 and 1.5 percent following police-involved shootings. We conclude that incidents of police violence generate “de-policing”, and the effect is much larger following highly publicized incidents.

This folder contains the main data and programs used to conduct the analysis in the paper.

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JEL Classification:
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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V2 [2024-08-27]

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