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Month: March 2016

The Equal Protection Origins of Broken Windows Policing

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 / Alex Elkins / Leave a comment

In this post I want to sketch some preliminary thoughts about the invention of proactive policing in the 1960s, whose core ideas laid the groundwork for what scholars and police, by the 1980s, would call Broken Windows policing.

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