John Pfaff was quoted in a VOA News article about current crime rates in the United States.
But criminologists noted that the federal government’s role in fighting crime is limited and that the decline in the violent crime rate over the past year has been driven largely by local factors.
“The feds play at best a minimal role in crime policy,” said John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School. “There are more police officers in the New York Police Department than the entire FBI.”