Bonus for firearms seizures and police performance

Barros, Fernando C.; Delalibera, Bruno Ricardo; Neto, Valdemar Pinho; Rodrigues, Victor Rangel dos Santos

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110681

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“…While no significant effects are observed on deaths by police intervention or drug overdose, we show that the fraction of suicides by firearms, a proxy for local gun availability, experienced a relative decrease of 1.8 pp. While an explicit formal bonus for police officers who seized illegal firearms took place in 2017 (Barros et al, 2022), our results suggest that in the initial years of the PPV program, a reduction in firearm availability was also an important channel through which homicides were reduced (Gius, 2020). Additionally, columns ( 7)-( 8) show that the program did not affect the suicide or traffic accident death rates.…”

Section: Potential Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…We complement da Mota Silveira Neto et al (2022) and Barros et al (2022) by 1 According to the FBI's UCR, Chicago's homicide rate was about 20 per 100,000 in 2022.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Ten years after the program's implementation, however, an explicit performance bonus for police officers who seized firearms was deployed. Barros et al (2022) suggest that this performance-based incentive had sizeable effects. Using a synthetic-control approach, they show a positive correlation between the bonus incentive and increased firearm seizures.…”

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confidence: 95%

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“…We complement da Mota Silveira Neto et al (2022) and Barros et al (2022) by 1 According to the FBI's UCR, Chicago's homicide rate was about 20 per 100,000 in 2022.…”

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“…Crime, arrest, and conviction rates can be used to assess police performance (Alnuaimi & Abdulhabib, 2023). Alnuaimi & Abdulhabib (2023) and Barros et al (2022) state that indicators of police success include: Police are efficient, the officers carry out their jobs and take necessary action, the police respond quickly, and keep updated and give a followed up (Kelley et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

20 Years of Performance in Police Organization: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Juansih,

Mudzakkir

2023

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As one of the institutions in the public sector that engages directly with the community, the police play a significant role in providing services, security, and order following its obligations and functions. This research aims to map the topic of organizational performance in the public sector, particularly in the police, in numerous scientific studies. This research is a quantitative study with a descriptive methodology. Documentation techniques and literature studies were obtained through the Scopus database with the keyword "police performance." At the initial stage of the search, 73 articles related to "police performance" were found in the last 20 years, from 2003-2023. The analysis in this study was carried out using bibliometric techniques, which included the authors and articles published, citations, institutions, and countries that participated in the research development. Besides that, the analysis was also carried out using Vos Viewer software. The results of this study indicate that there are 265 keywords connected to the keyword "police performance" articles, with the highest number of publications in 2015 with 9 articles and in 2019 with 8 articles. In 2017 and 2022, with 6 articles, then the country with the most published articles is the United Kingdom with 10 articles, while the countries with the lowest contribution are Brazil, Indonesia, Israel and Spain, with 3 articles. Beside that, the institution with the most contributions is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with three documents. The author with the most citations related to "police performance" is Jon M. Shane, with a total of 219 citations then social sciences is the most frequently used subject, 59 documents or 52.7%. Finally, these results show that the most used keys in the last 20 years related to the keyword "police performance" are performance, police performance, police, police legitimacy, and job performance, while the least used keywords are creative leadership, procedural justice, crisis intervention, and citizen satisfaction.

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Bonus for firearms seizures and police performance

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

The role of public security reforms on violent crime dynamics

The role of public security reforms on violent crime dynamics

20 Years of Performance in Police Organization: A Bibliometric Analysis

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