Franklin Zimring interviewed by The Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2015
In New York City, the recruitment of more officers was a crucial reason that the decline in crime was larger and more sustained than in other cities, according to Franklin Zimring. … As Zimring notes, police in New York were among the first to realize the potential for computers to aid in fighting crime.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by NBC, Nov. 25, 2015
He doesn’t buy the argument that law enforcement and prosecutors lose control over contraband by handing it over to defense teams. “That’s an argument I really don’t understand unless federal law enforcement is telling you that they don’t trust local judges in local criminal courts,” Zimring said.
Franklin Zimring and Jesse Choper interviewed by Daily Journal, (registration required), Nov. 13, 2015
Zimring noted that the effort was not for naught, as its “legacy in relationship to death penalty politics is likely to be substantial.” While all previous attempts to “slow down the death penalty” had been procedural and incremental, this case was a “big picture, comprehensive attack,” he said.
“If I were a 9th Circuit judge, I’d have done the same thing,” said Jesse H. Choper. … “While the systemic delays may ultimately be unconstitutional, only the United States Supreme Court can say so.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 20, 2015
“If you keep throwing people in prison, you run out of the most dangerous guys, and you start suffering from diminishing marginal returns,” says Franklin Zimring.
Franklin Zimring quoted in The Washington Post, Sept. 4, 2015
“Crime and violence in most big cities in the United States are pretty much as they’ve been lately,” said Franklin Zimring. “Boy, is that good news.”
Franklin Zimring cited in Daily Commercial, August 29, 2015
Almost two decades ago, Franklin Zimring, a longtime researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and a colleague, Gordon Hawkins, showed that the U.S. doesn’t have an especially high crime rate relative to other developed nations. But the U.S. is far more violent. Every conflict, from the mundane to the serious — not just domestic disputes and robberies, but traffic altercations and bar fights — is more deadly in the U.S. because of the presence of guns.
Franklin Zimring cited in The Atlantic, August 10, 2015
Research by criminologist and Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring found that juveniles with five or more non-sex-related arrests on their record are twice as likely to be arrested for sex crimes in adulthood as juveniles who did commit sex offenses but had fewer than five total arrests for any crime.
Franklin Zimring interviewed for KPCC-FM, July 22, 2015
“This is not an issue you run for Attorney General on. The people who are going to give you brownie points are not the elites,” said Zimring.
Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, July 21, 2015
“New York has broken new ground on what is possible with violence in a very large city,” said Franklin Zimring.… Such low rates of life-threatening violence in New York City and Los Angeles may at some point make it fair to start comparing them to other large and less violent global cities such as London and Paris instead of other U.S. urban areas, Zimring said.
Franklin Zimring quoted in The Washington Post, July 7, 2015
“What sets the American pattern so clearly apart from the rest of developed nations is a byproduct of the generation after 1972,” said Franklin Zimring, a University of California at Berkeley law professor.