Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, December 5, 2013
“The very best news about a Bratton police commissionership at this point in New York history is the record in Los Angeles,” Franklin Zimring, a professor at Berkeley Law at the University California. “He stepped into a department with enormous problems. Through tighter and strategic management in Los Angeles … [Bratton] managed to improve the reputation of the department … in a relatively short period of time.”