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“Drug arrests increase in counties where local governments are running deficits… in states that allow police departments to retain seizure revenues… Increases, however, are observed only for drug arrests of blacks and Hispanics; drug arrests of whites remain unchanged."

To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement Table 7: Drug Arrests by jurisdiction and year Table 7: Drug Arrests by jurisdiction and year
To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement
Journal of Legal Studies
Makowsky, Michael D. / Stratmann, Thomas / Tabarrok, Alex
Vol. 48 Issue 1, pp. 189–216, 2019
10.1086/700589
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