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To: SunkenCiv

Mayor Giuliani in crime-ridden NYC instituted a zero-tolerance approach to crime-fighting, which allowed police to stop and frisk suspicious people and make arrests for minor infractions that once had been ignored.

This approach was based on a theory called “Broken Windows,” by criminologists George Kelling and James Q. Wilson, which contends that low-level disorder leads to increased blight and crime. Cracking down on minor offenses such as loitering, prostitution and aggressive panhandling is the way to prevent more serious ones but was criticized for being too aggressive about the enforcement of the laws ...


How would this work in “Woke” America?


9 posted on 08/14/2024 12:35:39 AM PDT by Liz ( )
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To: Liz

Woke America is all about terrorizing the American population.


10 posted on 08/14/2024 12:41:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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