Franklin E. Zimring Quotes
The real problem is testosterone. In New York City stops and frisks became ceremonies of dominance.
Franklin E. Zimring, Attorney & Criminal Justice Scholar, Describing police neighborhood patrols, Quoted in Daniel Berger, “Is Stop-And-Frisk Worth It”, The Atlantic, April 2014
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The judge found that Blacks and Hispanics were stopped and frisked at a much higher rate than whites despite the fact that whites, when they were stopped and searched had a higher rate of carrying an illegal gun or illegal substances.
Allen was the first female speaker of the California Assembly. Some of her Republican colleagues started a recall petition against her when they objected to her bipartisan approach.
by giving up raiding and war parties. The Indian nations of America were as diverse as the different peoples of Europe. Many tribes were farmers and cattle raisers. Some tribes traditionally were always engaged in hostilities of war, albeit these were usually small raids or war parties. For a culture where one “became a man” by going on a raid, the idea of a peace treaty with the whites in the area was difficult to accept. Enemy Indian tribes had been removed to other reservations and could not venture out easily. The result was there was no one to raid but the whites. Peace with whites meant no raids, and no raids meant no right of passage. No one could become a war chief if there were no wars. Peace was an enormous cultural inhibitor for some tribes.
There were a number of anarchist organizations across the country and in New York that advocated anarchism. As Moss testified, one of the reasons that the anarchists found sympathizers and followers was the incompetence, corruption, and injustice of the courts. After the Page Commission report New York Courts began a reform and triggered similar court reform efforts throughout the country. Even today we have problems with overzealous or corrupt police or prosecutors who falsify or hide evidence, but the frequency is very small compared with what it was in the early 1900s.
There are over 600.000 reported rape cases in South Africa each year. Since most rape goes unreported the real total is much larger, making South Africa the worst country in the world on a sexual violence scale. There are many reasons suggested for the South African extreme. However, since apartheid was overthrown, all ANC Governments had had a reluctance to have heavy police action for anything and there is a general reluctance to imprison people as this was what the apartheid regimes did. So all criminal activity is relatively high in South Africa.
There is a significant argument as to whether of not race should be used to try and predict the variables that will likely produce crimes. Some social scientists argue that virtually everything correlates with race {633357} and therefore the predictions are meaningless. Here, Kurtz argues that if you do not use race, since it does correlate with so much, then you might as well not try and determine the predictive factors of crime. Reality lies in the center, use race as one of the statistical variables but do not use it for profiling potential criminals and potential suspects unless there is observable and not deduced or inferred evidence of race in the crime.
Franklin E. Zimring is an American criminologist, law professor, and the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
