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Cops less likely to arrest if their shift is about to end

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31985#fromrss

Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality. Days in which an officer works a second job after their police shift have higher opportunity cost, also reducing late-shift arrests.

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Btw the similar finding about judges and before/after lunch judgements was fake apparently. As in, they purposefully order cases based on how complicated they are and this explained it.

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Source?

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Yeah, but judges know what cases they'll have to hear on a particular day, and can sort their calendars how they like (and put tricky things when they have time for it to take a while, and quick BS right before finishing up for the morning).

For a similar effect to happen here, the people dispatching officers for 911 calls would have to know which calls are likely to have a solid arrest and which aren't, and prefer to route quick bullshit calls to cops near the end of their workday while sending "yeah, someone's going to jail" calls to officers who have time for that.

From pg. 19-20:

Another potential concern is that a decline in late-shift arrests could be an artifact of either a formal or informal departmental policy that routes officers to fewer calls for service towards the end of their shift. In order to address this possibility, we ask whether an officer's arrest propensity declines conditional on taking a call for service.

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So they put complicated cases before lunch and easier ones afterward? How did they determine which case was believed by each judge to be easier or complicated?

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How do you think

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Neurologically.

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