Episode 65: Felipe Goncalves on whether police make too many arrests

Felipe Goncalves talks about how reductions in police enforcement activity affect crime.

“Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime” by Sungwoo Cho, Felipe Goncalves, and Emily Weisburst.

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “More COPS, Less Crime” by Steven Mello

• “Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime, and the July 2005 Terror Attacks” by Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, Robert Witt

• “Misdemeanor Prosecution” by Amanda Agan, Jennifer Doleac & Anna Harvey

• Episode 51 of Probable Causation: Amanda Agan and Anna Harvey

• “Does Proactive Policing Really Increase Major Crime? Accounting for an Ecological Fallacy” by Aaron Chalfin, David Mitre Becerril and Morgan Williams Jr.

• “The Professional Motivations of Police Officers” by Aaron Chalfin & Felipe Goncalves