Enforcing Inequality: Do Federal Subsidies Disproportionately Militarize Police in Low-Income and Minority Communities?

• In Event: Blank Space: How Race and Space Shape Policing

Brief Overview

We test two key hypotheses: (H1) LEAs in low-income jurisdictions, and (H2) those in racially diverse areas, are more likely to participate in federal programs such as the 1033 program, by using a time-series cross-sectional analysis.

Authors

• Kenny Lowande, University of Michigan

• Heonuk Ha, University of Michigan