There is more visible crime or undesirable behavior. The “broken window” model essentially boils down in concept to you hassle people for minor offenses to lev

There is more visible crime or undesirable behavior. The “broken window” model essentially boils down in concept to you hassle people for minor offenses to leverage them for bigger crimes. Reality is, police are told to “do something” and they do. Stat worship was a thing for awhile. NYPD’s antics are well documented… they’d send out details to juice stats. Issue summonses to 1,000 mostly minority kids for an offense like “obstructing a sidewalk”, and a large number won’t show up for court. Come back in 6 months after there’s a rape or murder… and yield 100 arrests for active warrants. Some of them may even have done something interesting. Poof! The precient commander has “done something”!