Researcher ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-7129-489X
Graduation Year
2021
Date of Submission
5-2021
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Mary Evans
Rights Information
2021 Suzannah M Thomas
Abstract
This study aims to examine the relationship between police budget and killings by police. Using a panel data set of police budgets and police killings between 2013 and 2019, I estimate fixed effects models to explore the relationship of interest and use a Poisson conditional fixed effects model to examine the robustness of my results. For a given city-year, I find a statistically significant negative association between the proportion of city resources devoted to police resources and killings per 10,000 arrests, and between the Police Budget Per-Capita and killings per 10,000 arrests. I also find, for a given city-year, that the presence of an indicator variable proxying for the presence of an officer-worn body camera program is associated with additional Killings per 10,000 Arrests, and that this estimate is statistically different from zero.
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Suzannah, "Defund the Police? An Exploration of the Relationship Police Budget and Officer-Involved Killings" (2021). CMC Senior Theses. 2657.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2657
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
