-The New York Times, March 6, 2010 by Gerry Shih
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07sfoffender.html
Franklin Zimring, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, said he believed that the law was never meant to be enforced. “It’s almost completely symbolic,” Professor Zimring said of the original ballot measure, Proposition 83. “As long as the decisive question is sentiments, you don’t have to ask any of the practical questions.”
-The Press-Enterprise, March 7, 2010 by Sarah Burge
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_offender08.4169fea.html
“There’s no way to create a zero-risk universe for this,” said Franklin Zimring, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law. “That’s not merely hard, that’s impossible.”
-Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2010 by Cathleen Decker
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-week14-2010mar14,0,5837387,print.story
Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor who has studied the measures, said they have largely become “symbolic politics.” Few have bothered to question whether the measures actually promote public safety, he said, because of the stigma of defending sex offenders. “Nobody wants to be photographed in close embrace with sex offenders,” he said. “Unless something is very expensive, it’s not apt to get much political scrutiny.”