“Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.” MayPersonsSeemsCommunityFailingHundredDrunkScoreUnjustVagrantsArresting Book:On Character: Essays Source: On Character: Essays
“Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.” WellsIndividualCommunityBrokenOughtProtectWindowImportancePoliceIllnessPhysiciansMaintainingFosteringBroken Windows Book:On Character: Essays Source: On Character: Essays
“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.” PeopleKnowsMeanDifferentStatesCommunityUnitedTalkingUnited StatesCongressDifferent ThingsSlogans Author:James Q. Wilson
