Bay Area sees dramatic drop in violent crime

David Sklansky quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 2012

The statistics, though, reveal difficulties in some places. Violent crime went up 6 percent in 2011 in Oakland…. “The city is still struggling to devise a response to the crime problem that the city can unite around,” said David Sklansky, a law professor at UC Berkeley who has written extensively about policing.