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Richard Stansfield

• Benson, B. L, Mast, B. D, and Rasmussen, D. W,
  Can police deter drunk driving?, Applied
  Economics, 2000, 32, pp.357-366

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• Economic Model Increasing punishment is
  ineffective way of deterring DUI, favoring
  policies which have an indirect deterrence effect
  such as increasing tax on alcohol.
• Criminology Numbers of drunk driving arrest
  crackdowns are very effective, and controlling
  DUI is a direct linear function of the amount of
  police effort

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Determinants of Arrest

• Availability of Police resources (PA)
• Sworn officers per 100000 population (PR)
• Laws that make traffic arrests easier (AL)
• Variables influencing probability of fatality
  (DF)
• Unobservable Fixed Effects
• PAF f(PR, AL, PA, DF.)

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Allocation of Resources

• Economic models have failed to detect effect
• of policing because of an omitted variable
• The lack of sustained police effort to actually
  tackle DUI

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Policy Recommendations

• ? Police Resources and Law Enforcement
• may increase the PAF (probability of arrest)
• may deter DUI
• So to reduce DUI, a shift of police resources,
  and proactive law enforcement programs should be
  used