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This paper provides empirical corroboration of optimizing models of police behaviour. Examining changes in stops and frisks around the pandemic onset and the protests following the killing of George Floyd, we find that hit rates generally rose as stops and frisks fell dramatically.

This paper analyses the Hydra darknet marketplace to provide a counterfactual example of what may eventuate if governments were to change their current policy and allow darknet drug marketplaces to exist without disruption. (Forthcoming, Criminology & Public Policy)

This paper empirically tests the assumption that police frisks face diminishing marginal returns. This assumption is key to economic models that test for racial discrimination in police frisks using Becker’s marginal outcome test. (AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022)