A Mess in Texas: The Deleterious Consequences of SB4 on Public Trust in Law Enforcement

• In Event: Policing in America

Brief Overview

Using a regression discontinuity design and fine-grained data on calls for police service, this paper find that state-level anti-sanctuary city laws reduce cooperation with the police within immigrant communities.

Authors

• Marcel Roman, UCLA

• Loren Collingwood, University of California-Riverside