Franklin Zimring Accounts For New York’s Drop in Crime

The Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2009 by E.B. Solomont
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The NYPD, which also added thousands of officers during the ’90s, was watching and becoming more aggressive in making arrests. “You had this kitchen sink full of police changes in the 1990s, and you have a much bigger drop in crime in New York than the general American crime drop,” said Frank Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor and author of The Great American Crime Decline.