The Impact of Fear on Police Behavior and Public Safety
研究警察因同事死亡而感知到工作风险上升后，如何减少逮捕活动一至两个月，但犯罪率并未因此上升，说明警察的恐惧不太可能损害公共安全。
Abstract We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers respond to a peer death by decreasing arrest activity for one to two months, consistent with heightened fear. Reductions are largest for low-level arrests and are more pronounced in smaller cities. Crime does not increase on average during this period, nor do we observe crime spikes in cities with larger or longer arrest declines. While shocks to perceived fatality risk generate substantial enforcement responses, officer fear is unlikely to harm public safety.