In the state of New York, prosecuting “minor” crimes, like fare evasion, has become impossible under discovery reform, which advantages offenders often insurmountably.
— Read on nypost.com/2024/08/12/opinion/bus-moochers-take-mta-for-a-ride-thanks-to-discovery-reform/
Tag: Broken Windows Policing
The Wild Kingdom – The Set podcast
One interesting segment is at 16:45 minutes the first appearance of Professor David Kennedy. He explains well what the drug scene look like at the time. Kennedy describes how the neighborhood was and it is an excellent example for the need for Broken Windows Policing.
The whole podcast is interesting.
Access the podcast HERE
Why public safety is the key to functioning NYC subways — crime hot spots for over 50 years
New York has suffered 40 subway homicides since 2020, a five-fold increase compared to the post-millennial norm. New York went through a similarly abrupt change in public safety underground before, in the mid-1960s — but took 25 years to fix it. The fable of how New York achieved its miracle crime decline begins in 1990, with the stabbing death of 22-year-old Utah tourist Brian Watkins in a Midtown subway station, as he defended his parents from…
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/why-public-safety-is-the-key-to-functioning-nyc-subways-crime-hot-spots-for-over-50-years/ar-AA1syvhz
Vital City | Jane Jacobs Would Support ‘City of Yes’
What lessons can ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’ teach about New York’s rezoning plan?
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/jane-jacobs-would-support-city-of-yes
Policing and the Social Order: 10 Blocks podcast | City Journal
Excellent podcast- discussing Broken Windows Policing.
Rafael A. Mangual joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss barriers to enacting effective crime-fighting policies.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/multimedia/policing-and-the-social-order
Police can’t get tough on crime until we help them fix a crisis of their own | Fox News
Policing in the US is bad and isn’t getting better. The left demonizes the officers and departments are heavily understaffed. Don’t look for a return to Broken Windows policing soon.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/opinion/police-cant-get-tough-crime-until-help-them-fix-crisis-own
Can We Get Back to Tougher Policing
More than 40 years have passed since the publication of one of the most important public-policy essays ever written. Its title, “Broken Windows,” captured the essence of a simple but deeply insightful idea: public order matters. “[I]f a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken,” wrote the late authors, political scientist James Q. Wilson and longtime Manhattan Institute senior fellow George L. Kelling, in the March 1982 issue of The Atlantic. Visible signs of chaos were like warnings: you’re not safe here. If left unaddressed, the chaos made those areas more vulnerable to further disorder, including serious crime. “ ‘[U]ntended’ behavior,” the authors maintained, “leads to the breakdown of community controls” and causes residents to “think that crime, especially violent crime, is on the rise, and . . . modify their behavior accordingly.” The areas where disorder festers become more “vulnerable to criminal invasion” than “places where people are confident they can regulate public behavior by informal controls.”
Read more by Rafael Mangual – HERE
On Lessons Not Learned: Blue Cities Like Seattle Confirm the Broken Windows Theory—40 Years After It Was Proposed
See the report here:
Make NYC orderly for everyone
New York City may be a safe haven for shoplifters, subway shovers, gangbangers and illegal migrants, but park rangers are holding the line against pee-wee pee-pee bandits.
— Read on nypost.com/2024/04/12/opinion/make-nyc-orderly-for-everyone/
Future of Policing 