Broken Windows Policing, of course, was introduced to a specific demographic of the public in a famous 1982 article by George Kelling and James Wilson in The Atlantic. "For the cops [this was] a bonanza," Bratton said, as cited by Bernard Harcourt, one of the first academics to explicitly push back against Broken Windows policing. Broken Windows, by opening up the greatest possible number of people to police interactions necessarily resulted in tremendous racial disparities. Chattel slavery, convict leasing, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, broken windows, predictive policing and the surveillance state. More than 600,000 people were summonsed or arrested in New York City 2015; 85 percent people of color.

Source: Huffington Post October 21, 2016 21:08 UTC