Tag: Police Operations

Broken Windows Works: Don’t Be Fooled By Latest Efforts To Discredit It.

Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory, originating with George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, argued that tolerating too much local disorder created a climate in which criminal behavior, including serious crimes, would become more likely, since criminals would sense that […]
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/broken-windows-works

Embedded: “We Keep Us Safe” from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times : NPR

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
— Read on www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g-s1-120825/seattle-chop-zone-antonio-mays

Ferguson at Twelve: The Lie That Divided a Nation

Ferguson is often thought of as an isolated event, something that happened way back when. I recently had to explain what happened in Ferguson to several eighteen year olds who had never heard of the shooting, because they were six years old when it happened. But Ferguson is not an isolated event. In many ways, it is the beginning, or the key escalation, in the long running culture war that is now sixty years old, and its repercussions are felt to this day. Would the stunning response sanitizing the Hamas of October 7 as freedom fighters have been possible without how Ferguson changed the landscape? Likely not. Or it wouldn’t have been as successful. Ferguson was the launch of Black Lives Matter, the elevation of liberation ideology and the red-green axis that rolls stronger today than ever. And it all began on Canfield Drive with the dead body of Michael Brown lying on that scorching pavement that August afternoon and this weekend is the twelfth anniversary.
— Read on manofsteele.substack.com/p/ferguson-at-twelve-the-lie-that-divided

“You’re joking, not another one?”

Just days after the latest amendments to police conduct regulations came into force, the Home Office announced yet another review of police misconduct procedures. At what point do continual reforms stop improving the system and start undermining it?
West Midlands Police Federation conduct and performance lead Dave Hadley has written a blog setting out his views after the Home Office announced at the end of last month that it had launched an ‘end-to-end’ review into the police accountability system.
The review will be chaired by Dame Lynne Owens, a former Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and a former Director General of the National Crime Agency, and Jason Beer KC who are expected to report back within six months.
It will look at how police officers are held to account, identify barriers that can delay outcomes, and consider how the system can be made faster, fairer and more effective.
— Read on polfed.org/westmids/news-and-events/news/2026/you-re-joking-not-another-one/