Mayor Adams may not admit it, but the NYPD is bringing back “broken windows” policing — a crackdown on quality of life offenses, purportedly to address New Yorkers’ complaints about loud parties, ...

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You know of broken-windows theory. It is the insight, promulgated by the social scientists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, that visible signs of disorder, left untended, stimulate further ...

The broken windows theory states that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage further disorder and misbehavior, leading to serious crimes. The principle was developed to ...