• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths
  • Contributor: Cunningham, Jamein [VerfasserIn]; Feir, Donna [VerfasserIn]; Gillezeau, Rob [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2021]
  • Published in: IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 14208
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (75 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3813635
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  • Description: Do collective bargaining rights for law enforcement result in more civilian deaths at the hands of the police? Using an event-study design, we find that the introduction of duty to bargain requirements with police unions has led to a significant increase in non-white civilian deaths at the hands of police during the late twentieth century. We find no impact on various crime rate measures and suggestive evidence of a decline in police employment, consistent with increasing compensation. Our results indicate that the adoption of collective bargaining rights for law enforcement can explain approximately 10 percent of the total non-white civilian deaths at the hands of law enforcement between 1959 and 1988. This effect is robust to a contiguous county approach, accounting for heterogeneity in treatment timing, and numerous other specifications. While the relationship between police unions and violence against civilians is not clear ex-ante, our results show that the popular notion that police unions exacerbate police violence is empirically grounded
  • Access State: Open Access