Contra Costa Times, October 24, 2010 by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_16421678?nclick_check=1
“I think assessing a district attorney by the crime rate is risky because lots of things that influence crime rates are beyond the control of a district attorney,” Sklansky said. “In fact, we went through a decade or two of increasing crime rates in this state and experts couldn’t agree on what was driving those rates. Then, we had a remarkable turnaround and crime rates have been falling since then, and there’s an astonishing lack of consensus about what’s causing the crime rates to fall.”