This is an interesting find how enforcing the law, especially for minor crimes, affected overall crime. The article goes on to say broken windows policing works and the police aren’t the problem the criminals are the problem.
“This bill does not say that crime is OK,” Washington, D.C., Councilman Vincent Gray said in 2019 as he voted to decriminalize turnstile jumping in the Metro system. “This bill does not advocate lawlessness,” he insisted. “Rather, it advocates for fairness.”
— Read on www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/fight-subway-crime-by-actually-enforcing-the-law
Future of Policing 