“…Several papers have examined the action of police patrols as monitoring mechanisms for municipal governments (Batista et al, 2020;Campos, Castelar, & Soares, 2018;Grangeia, Carvalhães, & Coelho, 2021;Olivieri, Martinelli, Massucatto, & Silva, 2018). A less examined angle consists in identifying fire alarms as inducers of preferences to be followed by elected representatives.…”