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“When we consider the ‘real’ net incentives faced by police, we see that arrests increase substantially when police get to keep more of the proceeds… a 1% increase in the de facto sharing rate [of forfeitures with police] increases the drug arrest rate by about 0.66%."

Finders Keepers: Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets

Journal of Public Economics

Baicker, Katherine / Jacobson, Mireille

Vol. 91 Issue 11–12, pp. 2113–2136, 2007

10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.03.009

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