Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff spoke with The Washington Post about declining incarceration rates for African-American men.
In responding to the data, Fordham University Professor John Pfaff echoed several criminologists when he said that “This is one of the most surprising pattern of results I have seen in corrections in a long time.” Pfaff said that “law enforcement attitudes getting tougher in rural areas and softer in urban areas may be contributing to this change.”