Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, March 28, 2013

“The question is, Where is the bottom? How low can you go?” said professor Franklin Zimring, of University of California Berkeley School of Law, who has studied New York City crime trends.

Franklin Zimring quoted in San Jose Mercury News, February 20, 2013

Police unions have argued the cuts were directly tied to the crime increases, but experts are less confident. Franklin E. Zimring, a crime expert and professor at UC Berkeley Law School, said it’s not clear if those increases are troubling trends or “just variation that can come down as easily as it goes up.”

Franklin Zimring and David Johnson write for Economic and Political Weekly, January 26, 2013

A death penalty for rapists in India is a truly terrible idea. With tens of thousands of rapes each year but only two executions in the past 15 years, arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement of the death penalty would be a certainty, not least because inefficient, misogynistic, and corrupt police and prosecutors would be put in charge of this lethal lottery.

Franklin Zimring cited in The New York Times, January 25, 2013

If the city had followed the national trend, nearly 60,000 additional New Yorkers would be behind bars today, and the number of city and state correction officers would have more than doubled since 1990, said Franklin E. Zimring…. By not expanding the jail and prison populations … the city and the state have been saving $1.5 billion a year.

Franklin Zimring quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2013

“I think that’s exactly what Oakland needs,” said Franklin Zimring…. about the transformation in New York that began under Bratton in the early 1990s. “What I see as important about a Bill Bratton is as a management consultant, because it’s getting the policing changes in Oakland organized and coordinated which are going to be the challenge.”

Franklin Zimring interviewed by National Public Radio, All Things Considered, January 24, 2013

“If you’re going to make the assumption that changes in crime rates always are responding to policies,” Zimring says, “then why shouldn’t we be blaming the police for the slight increases [in New York’s murder rate] in 2010 and 2011?”

Franklin Zimring quoted in San Jose Mercury News, January 23, 2013

Getting a thin layer of guns off the streets matters, said Franklin Zimring…. “Gun policing in New York got much more effective as every kind of street policing got more effective,” he said.

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Oakland Tribune, January 21, 2013

“You had an incoming chief with his own priorities,” said U.C. Berkeley School of Law professor Frank Zimring. “There was no continuity of management after that round of consultants.”

Franklin Zimring quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2013

“There’s nothing in the aggregate homicide totals that citizens in those cities should find scary,” he said. “If you’re the mayor of San Francisco or San Jose, the best adjective would be ‘concerned,’ but not ‘worried.’ If you’re the mayor of Oakland or Stockton, it’s ‘worried.'”

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Arizona Republic, January 8, 2013

Nationwide, an average of 113 officers were killed each year during the 1970s. “And there were fewer cops then, too,” Zimring said. “The long-term trend in killing of police is downward, not upward, and my impression is that when you look at the killings now, what you see is fluctuation at what is a relatively historically low level.”