The slowdown by NYPD officers around the beginning of the year was proof positive that the “broken-windows” school of policing is a failure, the director of the Police Reform Organizing Project said recently.
The sharp drop in summonses and arrests for low-level offenses that followed the assassination of Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu “exposed ‘broken windows’ as a myth,” Robert Gangi said in an interview.
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