When my folks pick me up at SeaTac they drive south down around Olympia and up the Hood Canal rather than drive through Seattle to the ferry which shortens the drive home.
When asked how he came to make New York City one of the safest big cities in America after decades of soaring crime rates, Giuliani said he was a “disciple” of the creators of the Broken Windows theory, the late James Wilson and George Kelling, who was then, a consultant with the New York Police Department.
According to their theory, which came to be regarded as axiom by police departments nationally and internationally, police forces can discourage serious crime and improve public safety by thoroughly addressing more minor offenses that affect residents’ quality of life.
“I started studying it in 1981 when I helped put together the Violent Crime Task Force for President Reagan, with Professor Wilson,” said Giuliani, who served as associate attorney general under Reagan. “It’s really [from] James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, and Bill and I were disciples of theirs.”
Giuliani said the theory “doesn’t have to be rigidly enforced. When they call it ‘zero tolerance,’ that’s sort of a media exaggeration. You don’t enforce every rule, you don’t enforce it, you don’t enforce a rule against fare beating in the same way you do the laws against homicide.”
WE NEED TO GO BACK TO ENFORCING THE BROKEN WINDOWS POLICY.
It’s only a matter of time before things get hot, you an see it all around. Have an honest conversation with a stranger, you’ll be amazed at the anger the harbor. It’s reaching the flash point and I don’t think it can be avoided.