Few city-related topics have generated as much debate in 2014 as broken windows policing. New York has played host to this discussion, especially in the aftermath of the over-aggressive arrest that led to Eric Garner's terrible death, but the whole country has taken part. Critics suggest the broken windows approachβwhich holds that stopping petty crimes ultimately deters big onesβis broken itself: unfairly targeting minorities, destroying community trust in police, and arguably doing more harm to the city than good.
[For more of this story, written by Eric Jaffe, go to http://www.citylab.com/crime/2...he-defensive/384080/]
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