Political and Social Drivers of Support for Police Killings: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Five Latin American Cities

This pre-analysis plan registers hypotheses for an online survey experiment to be administered via a Netquest panel in five cities across Colombia (Bogotá and Cali) and Brazil (Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and Salvador). The samples are representative at the level of each of these five cities, with quotas established using city-level census data by gender, age, and socio-economic status. What are the political drivers and ramifications of police killings, and how do these vary by underlying levels of police violence? Why are some police killings understood as justifiable, while others are not? Why do some incumbent politicians appear to pay high costs for police killings that occur on their watch, while others benefit from them?