Kind of right... Guiliani promoted Howard Safir, then police commissioner and former Federal Marshall, to seriously crack down -- the police ticketed people for jumping turnstiles (everybody jaywalks -- few people jump turnstiles... anymore) with the theory that if someone had misdemeanors or bench warrants or had cold jumped bail, they would prone to jumping turnstiles. These activities rearly inconvenience law abiding citizens. It has alot more to do with "criminal character" than broken windows. Broken windows more or less argues for maintaining a "visual status quo" where people who debate performing criminal activities won't if there is no "encouragement." Shit -- look at NY -- back in the 80s when the trains were all bombed out with graffiti, crime was huge -- nobody gave a fuck! Look at litter in NY -- so many people litter as the streets are dirty and there is litter there to begin with....
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Kind of right ... Guiliani promoted Howard Safir, then police commissioner and former Federal Marshall, to seriously crack down -- the police ticketed people for jumping turnstiles (everybody jaywalks -- few people jump turnstiles ... anymore) with the theory that if someone had misdemeanors or bench warrants or had cold jumped bail, they would prone to jumping turnstiles. ....
These activities rearly inconvenience law abiding citizens. It has alot more to do with "criminal character" than broken windows. Broken windows more or less argues for maintaining a "visual status quo" where people who debate performing criminal activities won't if there is no "encouragement."
Shit -- look at NY -- back in the 80s when the trains were all bombed out with graffiti, crime was huge -- nobody gave a fuck! Look at litter in NY -- so many people litter as the streets are dirty and there is litter there to begin with