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Assignment 1 Reading 7- Broken windows by James Q Wilson and George L Kelling. A) Wilson and Kelling discuss in the article the role of police in relation to crime. In order to improve the community's quality of life, "safe and clean neighborhood program's" were introduced. Money was provided to help cities assign police officers to walking beats, with the assumption that it would have an impact on crime rates. What foot patrollers did was to raise, the level of public order in these neighborhoods. Some police administrators argued that an officer in a squad car could observe as much as an officer on foot. Our experience is that you approach a person on foot more easily and talk to him more readily, then you do a person in a car. But the reality of police citizen encounters is powerfully altered by the automobile. An evaluation of the foot-patrol project was published...

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