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Except that it's not quite as clean-cut as we'd like it to be: http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/101318/broken-windows-revisited# http://www.newrepub
by groby_b 13y ago
Except that it's not quite as clean-cut as we'd like it to be: http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/101318/broken-windows-revisited# http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/101318/broken-w...
Bit more detail: http://blogcritics.org/policing-urban-crimes-the-broken-windows/ http://blogcritics.org/policing-urban-crimes-the-broken-wind...
Even more on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticism_of_the_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticism...
- lobster_johnson 13y agoOne thing I have noticed is that NYC has a lot more homeless people on the streets than just a few years ago, or at least more such people that are visible in the urban landscape. I don't know why, and my colleagues don't, either, but there seems to be an increase in the number of homeless people in general [1], which may explain it. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/nyc-homelessness-rises-shelters-50000_n_2812966.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/nyc-homelessness-ri...