Berkeley professor digs deep into links between cops and crime rates

Justin McCrary interviewed for KQED-FM, July 2, 2015

“The goal that we had was to look back over the past half century of U.S. experience with respect to police hiring … trying to understand the extent to which it’s true that police get hired in idiosyncratic years versus years that are, for example, associated with fears about an upcoming crime wave. And what we largely determined is that there seems to be a lot of idiosyncrasy with respect to police hiring.”