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Policing Efficacy

• Goldstein et al. 18
  • Police departments that collect more in fees and fines are less effective at solving crimes
  • “Specifically, we find that a 1 percent increase in the share of own-source revenues from fees, fines, and forfeitures collected by a municipality is associated with a decrease in the violent crime clearance rate of 3.7 percentage points”
    • This relationship is proven through a variety of empirical strategies, the details of which are outlined extensively on the methodology