@article{ref1,
title="The effect of immigration enforcement on crime reporting: evidence from Dallas",
journal="Journal of urban economics",
year="2022",
author="Jácome, Elisa",
volume="128",
number="",
pages="e103395-e103395",
abstract="Mistrust between immigrants and the police may undermine law enforcement's ability to keep communities safe. This paper documents that immigration policies affect an individual's willingness to report crime. I analyze the 2015 Priority Enforcement Program, which focused immigration enforcement on individuals convicted of serious crimes and shifted resources away from immigration-related offenses. I use data from the Dallas Police Department that include a complainant's ethnicity to show that the number of violent and property crimes reported to the police by Hispanics increased by 4 percent after the introduction of PEP. These results suggest that reducing enforcement of individuals who do not pose a threat to public safety can potentially improve trust between immigrant communities and the police.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0094-1190",
doi="10.1016/j.jue.2021.103395",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2021.103395"
}