Franklin Zimring quoted in The New York Times, December 5, 2013
Criminologists have long debated how much of New York’s crime decline can be attributed to the changes he put into place, and they have struggled to explain the strong downward trends across the country through the 1990s. ”If we can’t explain that in Toledo, we can’t explain it in New York either,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a criminologist at Berkeley Law School who has written on New York City’s crime decline. But, he added, ”A lot of the long term success of policing in New York is something that is properly credited” to Mr. Bratton.