Franklin Zimring Thinks Baltimore Can Lower Crime Rate

City Paper, February 15, 2012 by Michael Corbin
http://citypaper.com/arts/on-target-1.1271737

As recently as a decade ago, he says, many believed such reductions “were not possible…. And New York shows those numbers are not an essential part of city life, any city.” There is no reason to think Baltimore’s numbers can’t be significantly lower, he tells me.