Police

Monitoring Technology: The Impact of Body-Worn Cameras on Citizen-Police Interactions

(with Thiemo Fetzer, Pedro CL Souza, and Caterina Soto Vieira). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025. We provide experimental evidence that body-worn cameras for police monitoring improve police-citizen interactions, reducing use of force by 61.2% and negative interactions by 47.0%.

Can Trust be Built Through Citizen Monitoring of Police Activity?

(with Thiemo Fetzer, Pedro CL Souza, and Caterina Soto Vieira). Cambridge University Press, 2024. Chapter in Blair, Christia, and Weinstein (Eds.), Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust.