Franklin Zimring and Justin McCrary cited in Berkeley Patch, April 20, 2013
Zimring’s recent book, “The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control,” traces the declining crime rates in New York City. The book has been hailed as the most important work in criminology in recent memory. Zimring concludes that “The only obvious candidate to take credit for the city’s crime decline—was policing.”
Professor McCrary’s recent study reveals that an increased police presence has consistently been found to reduce crime. His study deems Oakland the 24th most under-policed of the 242 largest cities in the United States, and concludes that every dollar spent on increasing police in Oakland would generate $2.90 in reduced victimization costs.