By giving up on graffiti, Bill de Blasio opens the door to more decline

[rangerrebew]

 
By giving up on graffiti, Bill de Blasio opens the door to more decline

By Heather Mac Donald

July 23, 2020 | 8:01pm
 

Mayor Bill de Blasio has canceled a graffiti-eradication program that cleaned private buildings, thus deliberately sending the city back to its worst days of crime and squalor.

Nothing sent a stronger signal in the late 1980s that New York was determined to fight back from anarchy than the transit system’s campaign against subway graffiti. That campaign was based on broken-windows policing, a theory that recognizes that physical disorder and low-level lawlessness, such as graffiti, turnstile-jumping and litter, telegraph that social control has broken down. That low-level lawlessness invites more contempt for norms of behavior, including felony crime.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/23/by-giving-up-on-graffiti-de-blasio-opens-door-to-more-decline/

[Fishrrman]

See the theory developed by Harvard professor James Q. Wilson about "broken windows"...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

See the theory developed by Harvard professor James Q. Wilson about "broken windows"...

If he ever watched Blue Bloods, we would know what it is.

Bet he has not nor ever will.

[PeteS in CA]

When police don't or are not allowed to "sweat the small stuff", the "big stuff" multiplies. How many time does that have to be learned?