NYPD data shows crime drops with fewer stops

Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, September 5, 2013

The sky hasn’t fallen as stop-and-frisks declined, raising doubts about a close relationship between the activity and crime levels, Zimring said. “It may be more subtle or it may take more time,” he said of the crime trends. “But the easiest kind of cause and effect inference to come from the data, doesn’t seem to be there.”