Justin McCrary quoted in Oakland Tribune, May 2, 2013
Put in dollars and cents, he argued, a 10 percent increase in police staffing would cost close to $13 million but would return anti-crime benefits of close to $40 million. That’s a good investment by most private industry standards, McCrary added. “If you owned a business and someone said that if you invested $13 million and got back $40 million, every single businessman would say ‘sold,'” he said.