Franklin Zimring quoted by Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2016
Gun ownership in states like California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York is already so heavily regulated that when proponents seek to further restrict ownership, they often are limited to making marginal changes like those included in Proposition 63, he said.
Franklin Zimring quoted by NBC News, Oct. 17, 2016
“What you have are attempts here not to mount any kind of revival of the death penalty, but to stop the bleeding,” said Franklin Zimring.
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2016
“People who are talking about Ferguson effects — why do you find it in homicide and not burglary?” asked Franklin Zimring, a criminologist at the University of California, Berkeley in an interview earlier this year. “That’s just not very good logic, and it’s not consistent.”
Franklin Zimring interviewed by KPCC-FM, Sept. 26, 2016
“You have a lot of statistics, and they’re all wrong. … slightly less than half of police killings were reported in any of the national statistical structures. … We now know numbers, but we don’t know circumstances, and we can’t audit.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Sept. 25, 2016
While courts and legislatures around the nation are abolishing capital punishment, when it goes to a public vote the hard line tends to have the advantage, said Franklin Zimring. … “The question is what do you do with the worst criminals you have?” Zimring said. “And if that ever becomes a question of sentiment the answer is boil them in oil.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Sept. 25, 2016
While courts and legislatures around the nation are abolishing capital punishment, when it goes to a public vote the hard line tends to have the advantage, said Franklin Zimring. … “The question is what do you do with the worst criminals you have?” Zimring said. “And if that ever becomes a question of sentiment the answer is boil them in oil.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by Bakersfield.com, Sept. 20, 2016
As University of California Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring observes, the determining factor for seeking the death penalty is not homicide rates or demographics, but “Who is the district attorney?” One elected official in each county is effectively the “decider” as to who faces the death penalty.
Franklin Zimring quoted by Los Angeles Times, Sept. 5, 2016
Although prosecutors generally do not file charges without enough evidence to prove them, other factors might come into play, Zimring said. “The prosecutor might take cases which have an enormous amount of publicity or an enormously attractive victim or an enormously vulnerable and important defendant.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Daily Californian, August 29, 2016
“Executions are the third leading cause of death on death row (in California),” Zimring said, the first two being natural causes and suicide. But Zimring says that if Proposition 66 were to pass, it would mean such a large change in the death penalty procedures that the state would be tied up in litigation for years, leading to even more delays in executions.
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Washington Post, August 3, 2016
Franklin Zimring … has argued that Bratton and his lieutenants contributed to making New York City’s streets safer — and that what Zimring calls the “New York model” helped reduce crime in other cities, too.