https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o...story.html

There's been a disturbing trend, especially among Democrats, to disparage police and their approaches that actually work. Broken windows policing is one of them.


"...Starting in the 1960s, everywhere in America, crime began rising. It continued to climb through the 1970s, and accelerated in the 1980s, particularly in our nation’s great cities, where the introduction of crack cocaine precipitated stunning amounts of violence. By 1990, there was an awful peak. New York City suffered 2,245 murders that year, a life stolen every four hours. Put another way, in 1990 the city accounted for 2.9% of the nation’s population and 9.6% of the nation’s homicides — and this at a time when America was much more violent.

And then it tipped. Slowly and localized at first, but then faster and increasingly widespread, three decades of seemingly inexorable crime increase tipped. By 2017, New York City had 2.6% of the country’s people and 1.7% of its homicides. The city, once the site of a tenth of the country’s murders, now literally has less than its share — and that’s a share of a whole that has dropped everywhere.

What happened? Many things, but they were all underpinned by a belief that police could work with the communities they serve to prevent crime and disorder, and a criminological theory that came to be called “broken windows....""

The 2nd thing under attack is so-called "mass incarceration." Democratic lead cities are returning to catch and release, which results in 10-20% of criminals accounting for 80% of the crimes. They never stay locked up.

Seriously though, the attacks on Broken Windows policing are yet another example of the left attacking crime fighting strategies that work. They did the exact same thing to Project Exile in Richmond despite the fact that when it was implemented it dropped the homicide rate 33% in the first year alone. The left simply cannot leave policies in place that are effective against combating crime.

Stop and Frisk was another police tactic that worked but the crime loving Leftists put a stop to that too. Poor, poor misfits were suffering under police tactics.

This story, including William Bratton, is featured prominently in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

(06-02-2019 06:46 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Stop and Frisk was another police tactic that worked but the crime loving Leftists put a stop to that too. Poor, poor misfits were suffering under police tactics.

There's a big difference between "broken windows," which fights actual crimes that have occurred, and "stop and frisk" and other things that treat everyone as a criminal. The takeaway should be that real policing works, making the Orwellian pre-crime measures unnecessary.