Abstract Latin America is the only region in the world where lethal violence increased in the first decade of the 21st century, and its citizens identified crime and violence as their main concern. Though previous literature shows promising results of saturation policing on crimes, little rigorous evidence exists on the impact of these strategies on the cited region. I study the effects of the implementation of a special saturation policing operation in Uruguay, a Latin-American country that has experienced a huge increase in crime in the last decade. I employ a difference-in-difference approach exploiting the fact that the saturation operation was applied only in the capital of Uruguay due to restriction of resources. I find that the capital experienced a reduction between 20% and 30% in robberies in comparison with the control cities.

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饱和警务和抢劫案：关于突然和快速操作的影响的拟实验证据

摘要拉丁美洲是世界上唯一一个在21世纪头十年致命暴力事件增加的地区，其居民将犯罪和暴力视为主要关切。尽管先前的文献显示了对犯罪的饱和警务的有希望的结果，但很少有严格的证据证明这些策略对所引用地区的影响。我研究了在拉丁美洲国家乌拉圭实施特别饱和警务行动的效果，该国在过去十年中犯罪率急剧上升。我采用了一种差异差异方法，该方法利用了以下事实：由于资源限制，饱和运算仅在乌拉圭首都进行。我发现，与管制城市相比，首都的抢劫案减少了20％至30％。