| It's just the musings of a city planner in Newark, NJ; which extolls, among many other items, police who match the color (and origins) of the populace, who enforce 'neighborhood' rules - however in line they are with written law, who patrol on foot instead of in squad cars, who give more importance to preventative measures as compared to responsive measures, etc. William Bratton used some of the principles of this "broken window" theory to clean up Boston and NYC - before getting fired by republican Rudolph Giuliani for trying to take the credit for having reduced crime.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |