NYC homicides drop to 50-year low; city has lowest homicide rate among largest U.S. cities

Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, December 31, 2012

“Impressive,” was how a noted criminologist, Professor Franklin Zimring, labeled the latest results.
“The 2012 decline is the first push under the [low] homicide rates of 2009,” said Zimring, who teaches law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. “It means the city hasn’t scraped bottom yet.”