Clean up of New York’s bad apples an inspiration to free-thinkers

Franklin Zimring cited in The Sydney Morning Herald, April 5, 2012

Professor Zimring concludes that the police, by inhibiting street crime, inhibited crime generally. They took away a milieu. This had the greatest impact on the greatest source of crimes—criminals coming out of prison—who found their old comfort zones were gone.

Clean up of New York’s bad apples an inspiration to free-thinkers
Franklin Zimring
cited in The Sydney Morning Herald, April 5, 2012
Professor Zimring concludes that the police, by inhibiting street crime, inhibited crime generally. They took away a milieu. This had the greatest impact on the greatest source of crimes—criminals coming out of prison—who found their old comfort zones were gone.