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Measuring Police Performance: Public Attitudes Expressed in Twitter

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I study the viability of Twitter-based measures for measuring public attitudes about the police. I find that Twitter-based measures track Gallup's measure of public attitudes toward the police starting around 2014, when the Twitter user base stabilized, but not before 2014. Increases in Black Lives Matter protests are also associated with increases in negative sentiment measures from Twitter. The findings suggest that Twitter-based measures can be used to acquire granular evaluations of police performance, but they are more useful in analyzing panel data of multiple agencies over time rather than in tracking a single geographical area over time.

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  • Taeho Kim, 2022. "Measuring Police Performance: Public Attitudes Expressed in Twitter," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 184-187, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:112:y:2022:p:184-87
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20221101
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    1. Matilde Giaccherini & Joanna Kopinska & Gabriele Rovigatti, 2022. "Vax Populi: The Social Costs of Online Vaccine Skepticism," CESifo Working Paper Series 10184, CESifo.

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    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • H76 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Other Expenditure Categories
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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