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The Broken Window Theory

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The concept of the Broken Windows theory in the terms of policing is arresting people for small crimes so big crimes do not happen. This type of policing is supposed to benefit the people but the officers are the ones benefiting. The first time the broken window theory was used in policing it only worked for the police. Now in present day America it is not working for anyone. The idea behind quality of life policing is to give people a good life. But young people of not only color, feel like they do not have equal rights. And an entire community can look bad because of the wrongdoing of a few bad people.
Malcolm Gladwell author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, a result of him trying to understand the Broken …show more content…

So his strategy was to crack down on quality-of-life crimes. Such as the issue of squeegee men who demanded money from drivers at New York City Intersections for washing car windows, graffiti artist, …show more content…

Most of the issues have to do with race. There is turmoil within the law enforcement itself they do not have one voice. At a press conference in the summer of 2014 after the death of Eric Garner in July, and the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, both African American, Mayor de Blasio who has a biracial son, admitted that he and his wife have “had to literally train” him in “how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.” (Auletta 2) de Blasio’s point is that we are at a point where African Americans have to fear police officers or act in a certain way in order in a case where they have an encounter with the police. This problem has obviously snowballed to the point where even the Mayor of New York has to train his son to be careful around the people who should be protecting him. Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association considers de Blasio’s statement to be throwing cops under the bus. The police can have issues, but when they are in public they need to have one voice. Because of all the issues within the department that had gone on, dating back to the late 1900s, Bratton decided it was time for a change. He established a computerized system called Compstat. Compstat could “identify and track the hard-core criminals who commit a disproportionate percentage of crimes in the city.”(Auletta 5) He also added

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It had a major impact during that time and still remains influential today. One of the most notable applications of this theory was in New York City under the supervision of the Police Commissioner William Bratton (“Broken Windows”). Bratton and others were fully convinced that the uses of the broken window theory, such as aggressive order-maintenance practices in the New York City Police Department impacted the dramatic decrease of crime rate in the city during the 1990s. Bratton used the broken windows theory with the New York City’s transit police force from 1990-1992. Squads of plain clothed officers were assigned to catch turnstile jumpers.

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