Steve Chapman: In Chicago, hard truths must be faced

Franklin Zimring cited by Omaha World-Herald, March 14, 2017

In his new book, “When Police Kill,” University of California, Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring notes that Philadelphia drastically reduced the number of civilian deaths at the hands of police — from 15 in 2007 to four in 2014 and two in 2015. Yet the crime rate last year was the lowest the city had seen since 1979.