-New York Post, January 1, 2012 by Brad Hamilton
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/crime_stats_tick_up_dx06UsXLSc7nmyfcvisQDP
“It’s stable at a modern low, and that’s the important thing,” said Franklin Zimring…. “Over the last few years, New York is losing its unique position as a Guinness Book record holder. Other cities are getting closer, and LA is catching up faster than anyone else.”
-MSNBC, January 3, 2012 by James Eng
http://on.msnbc.com/yscDvd
“By both the left- and right-wing leading indicators we should be in a lot of trouble – except (we’re) not,” Zimring says. “Everything we thought we knew are deeply challenged by events by the last three years.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2012 by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/05/MNBB1MKFDI.DTL&type=printable
Franklin Zimring, a criminologist and law professor at UC Berkeley, said the trend in San Francisco was similar to cities across the country but was difficult to explain, defying not only fears about the economy but also about decreasing incarceration rates. “If you can’t explain it,” Zimring cautioned, “you can’t predict it’s going to continue.”
-The New York Times, January 13, 2012 by Sam Roberts
http://nyti.ms/w3eEnZ
The city’s experience, Professor Zimring writes, “shows that huge increases in incarceration are unnecessary and inefficient. It proves that targeted violence-prevention policies can reduce drug violence and reclaim public areas from drug anarchy without all-out drug wars.”