The Crime Report, August 2, 2011 by Ted Gest
http://www.thecrimereport.org/archive/2011-08-cops-and-crime
The major factor in the decline has been better policing, he says. “Cops matter a heck of a lot more than professors and policy makers have thought,” he told the association’s annual forum on criminal justice and public safety, held this year in Jersey City, N.J.