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6 - Critic

Incivilities Reduction Policing, Zero Tolerance, and the Retreat from Coproduction: Even Weaker Foundations and Stronger Pressures

from Part III - Broken Windows Policing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2019

By
Ralph B. Taylor
Edited by
David Weisburd  and
Anthony A. Braga
David Weisburd
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Virginia
Anthony A. Braga
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

A 2002 New Yorker cartoon depicts two grizzled prisoners whiling away the day on their bunks in their cell. The one on the bottom bunk, presumably in reply to a question from the inmate in the top bunk, explains, “There might have been some carelessness on my part, but it was mostly just good police work.” The inmate on the top bunk seems startled by the admission.

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Police Innovation
Contrasting Perspectives
 , pp. 142 - 162
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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