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Broken Windows policing counterproductive
2017-09-28 16:58:46.358044+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Nature Human Behavior:
Letters: Evidence that curtailing proactive policing can reduce major crime, Christopher M.
Sullivan and Zachary P. O’Keeffe
... Analysing several years of unique data obtained from the NYPD, we find
that civilian complaints of major crimes (such as burglary, felony assault and
grand larceny) decreased during and shortly after sharp reductions in proactive
policing. The results challenge prevailing scholarship as well as conventional wisdom
on authority and legal compliance, as they imply that aggressively enforcing minor
legal statutes incites more severe criminal acts.
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0211-5
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