Activist Groups Challenge Police Repression of Poor and Homeless

The “broken windows” theory of policing, introduced in 1982 by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, is meant to focus on the importance of “fixing”—also known as policing, getting rid of, or cleaning out—“broken windows” as a way of preventing more serious crimes. Thus, for example, according to the theory, preventing relatively minor crimes […]
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