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America's Broken Windows
American Thinker ^ | 5 Apr, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 04/05/2023 4:44:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Little crimes lead to bigger crimes, both in a big city and in our nation as a whole.

In criminology, the "broken windows" theory posits that visible signs of crime and civil disorder encourage only more serious crimes and antisocial behaviors. A community that is perceived to permit vandalism, fare evasion, public intoxication, and petty theft will soon find that it must defend against rising rates of robbery, rape, and murder. Tackling smaller forms of criminal mischief nips violent crimes in the bud. Although Wyatt Earp and other Wild West lawmen put the theory into practice long before social scientists James Wilson and George Kelling wrote about it in the 1980s, Mayor Rudy Giuliani and police commissioner William Bratton popularized its use when they successfully implemented "broken windows" policies that saved New York City from a decades-long crime spiral.

Communist Mayor Bill de Blasio later framed "broken windows" policing as inherently racist, retreated from many sensible initiatives, and punished cops for proactively fighting crime. The residents of NYC have subsequently paid the price with their deteriorating safety.

Such has been the much larger pattern throughout American society. Cultural Marxists and other communist coalitions attack good and sound policies as racist, sexist, transphobic, or guilty of some other ugly -ic or -ist smear; those traditional standards of behavior are repudiated; and then Americans suffer the consequences of living in a society without norms, manners, or common decency. Throwing bricks through America's windows while blaming others for their crimes, leftists have spent the last century engaging in purposeful destruction so as to bring about America's demise. Throw a brick here; throw a brick there; eventually, Americans wake up in a nation where government tyrants nonchalantly lock up their political opponents, censorship is widespread,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; brokenwindows; california; communism; crime; dystopia; newyork; sanfransicko

1 posted on 04/05/2023 4:44:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

New York needs Rudi back. It looks like Chicago has voted to go in the opposite direction.


2 posted on 04/05/2023 4:44:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Personally, I think it all started with the “California rolling stop”.


3 posted on 04/05/2023 4:51:03 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: MtnClimber

It all makes sense once one realizes that liberals DO. NOT. WANT. TO. FIX. THE. PROBLEM.


4 posted on 04/05/2023 5:00:37 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: MtnClimber

New York City Voters, like Chicago voters are too dumb to realize how bad things are. Hopefully the stupidity does spread further.


5 posted on 04/05/2023 5:02:51 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: MtnClimber

But,,, breaking windows stibulated the biconomy.
And creates yobs¿???


6 posted on 04/05/2023 5:29:28 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: Chgogal
New York City Voters, like Chicago voters are too dumb to realize how bad things are.

But isn't a fresh bagel or a slice of deep dish pizza worth a few hundred murders? You have to burn a few chicken farms to the ground to make an omelet.

7 posted on 04/05/2023 6:20:37 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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