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This paper explores the importance of a better policing and crime prevention by reducing minor social disorders. This topic is important because, it is obvious and apparent that the process of reducing crime and disorder shouldn’t only focus on the big crimes, but instead, it should first tackle all issues that impact the neighborhoods, things like graffiti, trash, social behaviors that might be deemed threatening (public intoxication, drug use), street lightning, the conditions of buildings, things that affect the quality of life. There’s something about tolerating minor infractions, which can be the reason for the increasing of more serious violent crimes, allowing low level crimes shows a lack of control and order in a community. On average …show more content…

According to a peer reviewed article that tackles this subject, in the 1990s, Times Square was one of the dirtiest and most crime filled places in all of New York. Drug use, petty crimes, dirty streets, and other quality of life crimes were rampant in this area of Manhattan. It wasn’t until police commissioner William J Bratton stepping in and cleaning up the streets that Times Square became tourism attraction it is today. Times Square, Manhattan, in the 1990s, was clearly not the place to be, and that went for everyone, natives and tourists. Times Square was the mecca of all sorts of crimes, and it was an extreme risk of a violent assault for anyone of dared to linger around there. Fast forward to the 2000s and Times Square, Manhattan, is one of the most popular and vibrant, safest tourist attractions in the entire country. The crime rate not only decreased by the states standards, but they went way below the nation’s average. New York Police Dept. Commissioner William J Bratton gave full credit of the cleaning of Times Square on this theory (Kelling & Coles, 1996; Skogan, 1990; Sousa & Kelling, 2006; Wilson & Kelling, …show more content…

The article discusses how the success by Commissioner William J Bratton in NYC influenced other states like California and Chicago to follow suit with the Broken Window Theory. The City of Chicago implemented their own version for the broken window theory which on paper was supposed to be an anti-gang loitering ordinance, which took place in the early1990s. This law was vigorously enforced from 1993 to 1995, resulting in misdemeanor arrests of more than 42,000 citizens. In October 2002, the Los Angeles mayor James Hahn anointed William Bratton as his police commissioner and tried out the Broken Window Theory in his city. By using a multilevel research design, the authors provide one of the first indications of a direct link between a more program intensive enforcement program and the decline in serious and violent crimes. Even though the study used an innovative model approach, the results are still a little doubtful due to their

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