Prosecutorial Reform and Local Crime Rates

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That's not the narrative that's been suggested. Wonder why.

In this paper we use variation in the timing of when these prosecutors took office, across 35 jurisdictions, to measure the effect of their policies on reported crime rates. While our estimates are imprecisely estimated, we find no significant effects of these reforms on local crime rates.

Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3952764

 

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Until society looks at the underlying reasons for crime...no reform will ever work

 

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That's not the narrative that's been suggested. Wonder why.


Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3952764

Look in L.A., NYC, Chicago, St. Louis, and in San Francisco.

 

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Look in L.A., NYC, and in San Francisco.

Read the paper.