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"They also gave rise to Martin O’Malley, a city councilman who was elected mayor on an anti-crime platform in 1999. O’Malley set about implementing what was the
by mjfl 8y ago
"They also gave rise to Martin O’Malley, a city councilman who was elected mayor on an anti-crime platform in 1999.
O’Malley set about implementing what was then known as the New York model: zero tolerance for open-air drug markets, data-centric “CompStat” meetings to track crime and hold police commanders accountable and more resources for law enforcement paired with tougher discipline for officers who abused their power. By the time O’Malley, a Democrat, was elected governor of Maryland in 2006, crime rates, including murders, had fallen across the board"
Geez, for how maligned it is, broken window policing seems to work - causally so. In this case, put it in and murder rates go down, take it out and murder rates go up.
- stonogo 8y agoI lived there then. The fallen crime rates got him elected, because his campaign was extremely effective in handwaving away the fact that national crime statistics had also fallen at approximately the same rates. It's a cautionary tale in interpreting results in a vacuum.
- tptacek 8y agoA fairly detailed review of the evidence for broken windows policing: https://cebcp.org/evidence-based-policing/what-works-in-policing/research-evidence-review/broken-windows-policing/ https://cebcp.org/evidence-based-policing/what-works-in-poli... It's a lot more complicated than "put it in, murders down, take it out, murders up".
- ch4s3 8y agoYou can look at a basket of cities throughout the 90s across NA and Europe and they all have comparable decreases in crime regardless of their use of « Broken Windows » policing.
- Marazan 8y agoHow did crime rates move in cities not using broken window theory policing?
- lenticular 8y agoIt moved downward at a similar rate. It had nothing to do with policing, broken-window or otherwise.
- leanthonyrn 8y agoHamsterdam is a great example of holding police commanders accountable. "The Wire" https://youtu.be/n4j_oSeWZyU https://youtu.be/n4j_oSeWZyU