“... When we enshrine arrest as a sign of an officer’s productivity, rather than ‘Did the officers solve problems?,’ that means we haven’t found effective methods yet to [quantify] department-wide measures of solving problems against just law enforcement. ...

“... I don’t want to back away from law enforcement as a means of solving problems because, at times, you use it, but it seems to me there are myriad of other ways to solve problems.” -George Kelling (1935-2019) ▶️ www.communitysignal.com/the-broken-w...

The Broken Windows Theory

"If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken." So says the broken windows theory, introduced by George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson in...