Franklin Zimring quoted in Chicago Tribune, July 8, 2016

American police kill civilians at rates five times higher than police in Canada, 40 times higher than in Germany and 140 times higher than in England and Wales. Is that because we have so much more violent crime, including gun crime? Partly, says Zimring, but “the U.S. rate of killings by police is 10 times as great as the difference in homicides generally.”

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Mercury News, May 18, 2016

Frank Zimring … said Alaysha’s slaying was a case of “extreme victimization” of an innocent girl caught in an enormous violence. There wasn’t a fight between equals; the gunfire blasted through the door, he said. Even an office that wouldn’t touch the death penalty with a 10-foot pole would feel an obligation to do so “in an extraordinary case of unprovoked and meaningless violence,” he said.

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Washington Post, May 4, 2016

“If you and I are selling drugs on the street, we’re both going to want the best corner, and if we have a conflict about who got there first, we’re not going to put it into arbitration,” Zimring said. “They put a tremendous number of cops in to destroy the public drug markets.”

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Washington Post, April 12, 2016

“The shield law is an attempt to create circumstances in which continuity of supply is going to be possible,” Zimring said. “Once the idea of a shield law takes hold, then anybody who is suffering from these issues will go after it.”

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Guardian, March 7, 2016

“In the annals of homicide investigation, [the Simpson case] was problematic in the extreme,” Zimring said. “But in terms of police-community relations, this was a minor disaster given some of the major disasters that preceded it.”

Franklin Zimring quoted in The Washington Post, March 4, 2016

Zimring, the Berkeley law professor, said the only criminal option left for prosecutors would be federal charges, which can be brought against someone who was acquitted in a state trial. So this knife isn’t wholly “legally irrelevant,” he said.

Franklin Zimring cited in The Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2016

Expanding inmates’ eligibility would have been a calculated risk, said University of California, Berkeley, law professor Frank Zimring, who has studied California prisons for more than 30 years. He warned that recruiting in jails may be tougher because many prisoners there have shorter sentences and may have active drug or mental health problems.

Franklin Zimring quoted by Newsday, Feb. 2, 2016

“What is important about January is what is not happening,” said Professor Franklin Zimring of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, referring to the low crime numbers. “To the extent there is any news, it is good.”

Franklin Zimring interviewed by KQED.org, Feb. 1, 2016

“COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something — a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines,” Zimring said.

Franklin Zimring interviewed by The Washington Post, Jan. 27, 2016

Nonetheless, last year’s interruption in the decline in homicides has experts concerned. They say it’s too early to know what caused the change, or whether it will endure. … “There’s no national pattern,” said Franklin Zimring.