-The Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2011 by Justin Fenton
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“There’s certainly been no major economic or institutional steps forward that one would confidently expect would be reflected amid crime declines,” Zimring said. “It isn’t that declining crime reflects good news on a lot of other fronts — it’s almost an isolated piece of good news without any obvious linkage to other nice things happening in these cities.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2011 by Matthai Kuruvila
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-18/news/29899333_1_oakland-police-mayor-jean-quan-city-council-members/2
Zimring said Oakland’s crime statistics prove that increasing or decreasing the number of police won’t necessarily impact the crime rate.… “There’s nothing crystal clear in the recent statistical patterns of Oakland when you look at them against the statistical patterns of other area cities,” Zimring said.