Jennifer Doleac
Jennifer Doleac is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, Director of the Justice Tech Lab, and host of the Probable Causation podcast. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. Professor Doleac is the Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel.
Voting History
Policing and public safety
Increasing police budgets will improve public safety.
| Vote | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Strongly Agree | 9 |
| Median Survey Vote | Median Survey Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 7 |
Increasing social service budgets (e.g. housing, health, education) will improve public safety.
| Vote | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 7 |
| Median Survey Vote | Median Survey Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 8 |
Comments
My hunch (based on existing research) is that we dramatically underinvest in such programs from a public safety perspective. But not all programs are effective, so we still have a lot of work to do to figure out exactly which programs should get more funding and how to scale them.
Increasing accountability for police misconduct will improve public safety.
| Vote | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 4 |
| Median Survey Vote | Median Survey Confidence |
|---|---|
| Agree | 6 |
Comments
Increasing civilians' trust in and cooperation with police should make it easier for officers to solve crimes and protect communities. But we have very little evidence on this -- largely because there hasn't been much policy experimentation in this area.
Comments
Assuming that a large share of additional funds will be used to hire additional officers. There is a strong consensus in the literature that hiring more police reduces crime.