Justin McCrary quoted in The Wall Street Journal, S.F. Bay Area, February 14, 2013 (registration required)

Research shows that in the long run, poverty is associated with higher crime rates, said Justin McCrary, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, though he noted that this doesn’t explain the recent increase in crime, which he said could be linked to the smaller police force.

Justin McCrary quoted in Insurance Journal, November 30, 2012

“The bigger police departments are a lot cheaper to run,” he said. But the result can also mean a lost “of texture and nuance” that residents will resist when they deal with officers unfamiliar with the territory.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2011 by Lauren Sieben
http://chronicle.com/article/5-Minutes-With-Where-More/126612/

Mr. Ludwig is a gun-policy researcher and an editor, along with Philip J. Cook, of Duke University, and Justin McCrary, of the University of California at Berkeley, of Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Frank Zimring is a law professor at Berkeley who wrote a terrific book in the late 90s where he points out that if you look at cities in the United Kingdom and you look at cities in the United States, the overall levels of fights and robberies and other crimes aren’t very different.

The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2011 by Barbara Martinez and Tom McGinty
http://on.wsj.com/hKOkaC

A trio of economists—Thomas S. Dee of the University of Virginia, Brian A. Jacob of the University of Michigan and Justin McCrary of the University of California at Berkeley—conducted an independent statistical analysis of the data for the Journal and came to a similar conclusion. They estimated that from 3% to 5% of the students statewide who were given passing grades for the five main Regents exams in June 2009 actually failed the tests.