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luminarium t1_iz2qz9n wrote

That was stop and frisk.

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the-mighty-kira t1_iz2yn5l wrote

The ‘broken windows’ policing theory was that if you jailed people for things like possession or jumping turnstiles, you’d lower crime.

The original theory was that crime is lower if you fix the symptoms of disorder, e.g. fixing a window soon after it’s broken, rather that letting everything deteriorate.

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