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by kennywinker 961 days ago
if you read the abstract of the 2015 study you’re quoting from:

> The strongest program effect sizes were generated by community and problem-solving interventions designed to change social and physical disorder conditions at particular places.

That doesn’t sound like broken windows policing. That sounds like fixing actual broken windows.

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Nuance. Yes, you can do broken window policing wrong by not actually fixing broken windows.