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“Enfranchisement of black voters leads to a reduction in black arrest rates, but only when CLEOs are elected, rather than appointed” & “In the presence of elected police chiefs… arrests of blacks …fall in counties that were … covered [by the Voting Rights Act]."

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The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
working paper
Facchini, Giovanni / Knight, Brian G. / Testa, Cecilia
24 June 2020
https://economics.brown.edu/sites/g/files/dprerj726/files/papers/Bravo%20Working%20Paper%202020-018.pdf
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