Lessons of an Urban Crime Drop

Criminologists and urban planners have been at a loss to explain the 80 percent drop in crime over 19 years in New York City. But in his book “The City That Became Safe,” UC Berkeley’s Franklin Zimring explains the tactics and techniques that have challenged long-held notions about law enforcement.

• More: About the book “The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control” – at Indiebound.org