Under pressure: victim withdrawal and police officer workload

Tom Kirchmaier and Ekaterina Oparina

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Abstract: This paper addresses the relationship between a police officer's workload and the likelihood of statement withdrawal of domestic abuse victims. We focus our analysis on high-risk cases reported to Greater Manchester Police from January 2014 to March 2019. Using this unique dataset, combined with institutional knowledge, we show that adding 10 more cases to a police officer's monthly workload is associated with an increase of the probability of statement withdrawal of 3 percentage points, or 17% of the average withdrawal rate in our sample. The increased workload is likely to be the outcome of a substantial reduction in the police budget, implying that this paper provides additional indirect evidence of the secondary costs of austerity policies.

Keywords: workload; productivity; police; austerity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H39 H56 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2024-03-19
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