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Overcoming Momentum
- ricardobeat 15y agoAFAIK the quote on broken windows comes from Malcom Gladwell's The Tipping Point (great read BTW), referring to some city's (NY?) police force fight on small crimes, that ended up lowering rates for all kinds of crime.
- swanson 15y agoYou are correct, it was referenced in Tipping Point (as well as Freakonomics and others). The wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory has a lot more information about the study and its findings.