re: String of stolen dirt bikes leads to an investigation across state lines

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I would rather NOPD focus on more serious matters.

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Fair. The problem is that they don't.

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they dont, and I dont blame them. I would rather NOPD focus on more serious matters.

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It has been proven by numerous legitimate studies that allowing the small crimes to go unchecked breeds larger crime. All of the liberals that scream "community policing" as a solution don't realize that community policing is a concept first developed in a seminal 1982 article called Broken Windows which states that:

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The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes such as vandalism, public drinking, and toll-jumping helps to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes from happening.

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In other words, people that live in a shitty ghetto will act like ghetto dwellers. People who live in a clean, ordered environment will act more like law abiding citizens.

But this causes liberals heads to explode when they get community policing and all of a sudden the police are citing people for littering and such while Code Enforcement starts hauling off abandoned cars and condemning crack houses.