-The New York Times, December 3, 2011 by Al Baker
http://nyti.ms/vrf6kR
“There is behind this, also, I think, a kind of status competition or imitation, that there is positive status in having a sort of ‘big department muscle,’ in smaller departments,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. “And then the problem is, if you have those kinds of specialized units, that you hunt for appropriate settings to use them and, in some of the smaller police departments, notions of the appropriate settings to use them are questionable.”
-KQED-FM, Forum, December 5, 2011 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201112051000
“Drug use is almost flat as a pancake when you compare 1990 with 2012. The amount of drugs used is about the same; the population using them has aged slightly. But all of the things that we thought meant that high levels of life-threatening crime were absolutely inevitable turn out not to produce that type of inevitability. “