From a latest paper:
We convey novel information to bear on these questions, presenting the most important empirical examine of personal safety so far. We introduce an administrative dataset protecting almost 300,000 licensed non-public safety officers within the State of Florida. By linking this dataset to equally complete details about public regulation enforcement, we’ve got, for the primary time, a virtually full image of your entire safety labor market in a single state. We report two principal findings. First, the private and non-private safety markets are predominantly characterised by occupational segregation, not integration. The people who compose the non-public safety sector differ markedly from the general public police; they’re, for instance, considerably much less more likely to be white males. We additionally discover that few non-public officers, roughly 2%, have beforehand labored in public policing, and even fewer will go on to policing sooner or later. Second, whereas former police make up a small share of all non-public safety, roughly 1 / 4 of cops who do cross over have been fired from a policing job. Actually, fired cops are almost as more likely to land in non-public safety as to seek out one other policing job, and a full quarter find yourself in a single or the opposite. We discover the implications of those findings, together with intersections with police abolition and the way forward for policing, on the paper’s shut.
That’s by Ben Grunwald, John Rappaport, and Michael Berg. Through the wonderful Kevin Lewis.
