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The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by Bratton William & Knobler Peter

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The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by Bratton William & Knobler Peter

Author:Bratton, William & Knobler, Peter [Bratton, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-03-03T07:00:00+00:00


People needed good news in a bad way. What story could we tell them?

In their 1982 Atlantic Monthly magazine article, James Q. Wilson and George Kelling had outlined their “Broken Windows” theory. As synopsized by Kelling, its three major points were:

Neighborhood disorder—drunks, panhandling, youth gangs, prostitution, and other urban incivilities—creates citizen fear.

Just as unrepaired broken windows can signal to people that nobody cares about a building and lead to more serious vandalism, untended disorderly behavior can also signal that nobody cares about the community and lead to more serious disorder and crime. Such signals— untended property, disorderly persons, drunks, obstreperous youth, et cetera—both create fear in citizens and attract predators.



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