New Faces Changing Spaces: Gentrification and Residential Demand for Policing

• In Event: Changing Faces Rebuilding Politics

Brief Overview

Using large-scale administrative data, I find evidence that gentrifiers demand more policing than traditional residents of gentrifying spaces and that movement into these spaces is correlated with increased demand for policing among gentrifiers.

Author

• Allison Verrilli, The University of Texas at Austin