Police-Monitored Cameras and Crime

Ignacio Munyo and Martín Rossi

No 126, Working Papers from Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia

Abstract: We study the impact of police monitoring on crime. We exploit detailed information on location and date of installation of police-monitored surveillance cameras coupled with data at the street-segment level on all reported crimes in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. We find that the introduction of police-monitored surveillance cameras reduces crime by about 20 percent in monitored areas relative to a pure control group located outside of the city. We further report that unmonitored areas of the city also benefit from a reduction in crime, thus indicating the presence of positive spillovers effects.

Keywords: monitoring cameras; police; crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2016-08, Revised 2018-10
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