COPS GRANTS AND CRIME REVISITED

Using 6 years of panel data, Zhao, Scheider, and Thurman (2002) found that funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), reduced property and violent crime in large U.S. cities. We merged their COPS data with 11 years of panel data from a sample...

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Published in:	Criminology (Beverly Hills) Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 159 - 190
Main Authors:	WORRALL, JOHN L., KOVANDZIC, TOMISLAV V.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-02-2007 American Society of Criminology
Subjects:	Cities COPS grants Crime Crime Prevention Crime Rates Criminology Federal funding Government agencies Grants Law enforcement panel data Police police spending Policing Poverty Prevention programs serious crime United States of America United States > US
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Summary:	Using 6 years of panel data, Zhao, Scheider, and Thurman (2002) found that funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), reduced property and violent crime in large U.S. cities. We merged their COPS data with 11 years of panel data from a sample of 189 large cities, such that the period before the COPS program was covered. We also controlled for pre‐existing effects on crime of police spending. Finally, we performed various robustness checks and explored state‐specific effects of COPS spending. Our findings suggest that COPS spending had little to no effect on crime.
Bibliography:	ArticleID:CRIM75 The authors would like to thank Tom Jessor, David Lilley, Bill Sabol, and Solomon Zhao for helpful thoughts and suggestions. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2005 ASC Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. istex:87E45E0C6A0C15A7501F02CE0E2FD84D793D6A7B ark:/67375/WNG-3GJVNL7X-V ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:	0011-1384 1745-9125
DOI:	10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00075.x