Erratum: Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2018) 115 (9181–9186) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805161115);Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 37, 2018, Pages 9181-9186

  Mummolo, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic reputation; Crime; Police militarization; Public safety; Race and policing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CRIME; FREEDOM; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POLICE; RACE; RESIDENT; TRUST; CIVIL RIGHTS; MARYLAND;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CIVIL RIGHTS; CRIME; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MARYLAND;

EID: 85052984294     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109160118     Document Type: Erratum

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