Policing Responses to External Signaling Events

• In Event: Race and the Carceral State

Brief Overview

We evaluate how responsive police departments are to external signaling events, asking if police departments change their routines in response to high-salience media events about policing or to lawsuits against police officers or police departments.

Authors

• Christine C Bird, The University of Texas at Austin

• Brooke Nicole Shannon, The University of Texas at Austin

• Derek A. Epp, University of Texas at Austin