-New York Post, January 1, 2012 by Brad Hamilton
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/crime_stats_tick_up_dx06UsXLSc7nmyfcvisQDP

“It’s stable at a modern low, and that’s the important thing,” said Franklin Zimring…. “Over the last few years, New York is losing its unique position as a Guinness Book record holder. Other cities are getting closer, and LA is catching up faster than anyone else.”

-MSNBC, January 3, 2012 by James Eng
http://on.msnbc.com/yscDvd

“By both the left- and right-wing leading indicators we should be in a lot of trouble – except (we’re) not,” Zimring says. “Everything we thought we knew are deeply challenged by events by the last three years.”

-San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2012 by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/05/MNBB1MKFDI.DTL&type=printable

Franklin Zimring, a criminologist and law professor at UC Berkeley, said the trend in San Francisco was similar to cities across the country but was difficult to explain, defying not only fears about the economy but also about decreasing incarceration rates. “If you can’t explain it,” Zimring cautioned, “you can’t predict it’s going to continue.”

-The New York Times, January 13, 2012 by Sam Roberts
http://nyti.ms/w3eEnZ

The city’s experience, Professor Zimring writes, “shows that huge increases in incarceration are unnecessary and inefficient. It proves that targeted violence-prevention policies can reduce drug violence and reclaim public areas from drug anarchy without all-out drug wars.”

Chicago Tribune, December 25, 2011 by Steve Chapman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-1225-chapman-20111225,0,152834.column

In fact, as University of California at Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring notes in his book “The Great American Crime Decline,” births to unwed teens didn’t fall after the abortion decision they rose. “There were no visible signs of changes in the demography of births to match the theories,” he writes.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2011 by Matthai Kuruvila
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/09/MNBN1LLJP3.DTL&type=printable

“I would call it a sort-of crime plan,” said Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and renowned criminologist, who said the plan does not make the tough decisions to prioritize what will be lost. “Everything that’s done in the plan is not done to the prejudice of anything else.”

-The New York Times, December 3, 2011 by Al Baker
http://nyti.ms/vrf6kR

“There is behind this, also, I think, a kind of status competition or imitation, that there is positive status in having a sort of ‘big department muscle,’ in smaller departments,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. “And then the problem is, if you have those kinds of specialized units, that you hunt for appropriate settings to use them and, in some of the smaller police departments, notions of the appropriate settings to use them are questionable.”

-KQED-FM, Forum, December 5, 2011 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201112051000

“Drug use is almost flat as a pancake when you compare 1990 with 2012. The amount of drugs used is about the same; the population using them has aged slightly. But all of the things that we thought meant that high levels of life-threatening crime were absolutely inevitable turn out not to produce that type of inevitability. “

New York Post, November 5, 2011 by Franklin E. Zimring
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/big_bite_out_of_crime_OqiIVfwn0Fp2S3NVkUNWiK

The impulses that produce muggings are situational and contingent and that means the short-term interventions can have long-term consequences for crime rates.

-OaklandNorth, October 26, 2011 by Tasion Kwamilele
http://oaklandnorth.net/2011/10/26/crime-expert-frank-zimring-suggests-oakland-adopt-new-yorks-crime-reduction-techniques/

Zimring said that the city’s expansion of its police presence and policing resources forced the crime rate down, and the productivity of the department increased substantially. The NYPD “went from being one of the softest to one of the most aggressive” police departments, he said.

-San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2011 by Franklin E. Zimring
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/30/INFK1LMB5J.DTL

The epic success of police in New York came at a time when the number of cops increased, their strategies of enforcement changed, and street police became much more aggressive.

The Salt Lake Tribune, October 26, 2011 by Don Thomson
http://www.sltrib.com/csp/cms/sites/sltrib/pages/printerfriendly.csp?id=52791458

“The largest measure of their political impact was their financial clout,” Zimring said. “Every dime that goes to the local level should be seen as a threat to the guards’ union. Eventually, it will weaken it.”

KPCC-FM October 20, 2011 Host Patt Morrison
http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/20/21086/halloween-sex-offfenders

“Any amount of sex crime is something that the community should be concerned about,” said Zimring, “but if we’re trying to protect our children sexually, 94 percent of the people who are going to offend against them sexually are going to be family members or friends. So it isn’t trick-or-treat time, it’s dinner time that you have to worry about.”

Watertown Daily Times, October 16, 2011 by Johnson News Service
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20111016/OPINION01/710169967/-1/opinion

“With all its ambiguities and difficulties, the photographic brave new world is better than its predecessor,” Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Times. “The kinds of mistakes you can make with it are less often and less catastrophic” than just oral or written versions of what occurred.

The Reason, October 12, 2011 by Jacob Sullum
http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/12/cameras-for-me-but-not-for-the

If a police officer is taking a picture of every interaction, one of the things that he may find is me, naked as a jaybird, when my wife calls to complain. Let’s assume that it’s either against the law or not, but I sure don’t want it on YouTube. The potential for a sort of permanent embarrassment is a looming presence when everything is filmed.