Original
The relationship between officer misconduct and convictionless arrests
Abstract
This paper examines whether officers with high prior alleged misconduct are more likely to make convictionless arrests (arrests that result in no or dismissed charges or where the defendant is found not guilty). Using the Chicago Police Department's rotational duty calendar to obtain plausibly exogenous variation in the set of officers assigned to work on a particular day, we find that high-misconduct officers make statistically significantly more arrests for nonindex crimes and in situations involving high officer discretion, compared to their no-misconduct peers. Our findings also suggest that downstream legal actors, such as prosecutors and judges, may be partially "correcting" these arrests.
中文
警官不当行为与无定罪逮捕之间的关系
摘要
本文考察先前被指控不当行为较多的警官是否更有可能实施无定罪逮捕（即未提出指控或指控被驳回，或被告被判无罪的逮捕）。利用芝加哥警察局的轮值勤务日历，以获得某一天被分配工作的警官组合的看似外生变异，我们发现，与无不当行为记录的同事相比，高不当行为警官对非索引犯罪以及涉及警官高度自由裁量情形的逮捕在统计上显著更多。我们的发现还表明，检察官和法官等下游法律行动者可能正在部分“纠正”这些逮捕。
关键词
警察不当行为、无定罪逮捕、警务、芝加哥警察局、自由裁量权、检察官、法官、刑事司法