The Introduction of Tasers and Police Use of Firearms: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department

Bocar Ba and Jeffrey Grogger

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, vol. 109, 157-60

Abstract: Many police jurisdictions have recently expanded their Taser arsenals with a goal of reducing officer-involved shootings. We analyze substitution between Tasers and firearms by means of an event study made possible by a policy change at the Chicago Police Department. Before March 2010, only sergeants and field training officers had access to Tasers; after that date, they were made available to patrol officers. We find that the change in Taser policy led to a large increase in Taser use, but not to a decrease in the use of firearms.

JEL-codes: H76 J45 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20191029
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191029 (application/pdf)
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191029.data (application/zip)
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191029.ds (application/zip)
Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aea:apandp:v:109:y:2019:p:157-60

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/subscribe.html

Access Statistics for this article

AEA Papers and Proceedings is currently edited by William Johnson and Kelly Markel

More articles in AEA Papers and Proceedings from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().