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19 lines
774 B
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title = "Alex S. Vitale"
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tags = ["quotes", "alex s vitale", "police", "inequality"]
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> "Broken windows policing is at root a deeply conservative attempt to shift
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> the burden of responsibility for declining living conditions onto the poor
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> themselves and to argue that the solution to all social ills is increasingly
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> aggressive, invasive, and restrictive forms of policing that involve more
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> arrests, more harassment, and ultimately more violence.
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> As inequality continues to increase, so will homelessness and public
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> disorder, and as long as people continue to embrace the use of police to
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> manage disorder, we will see a continual increase in the scope of police
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> power and authority at the expense of human and civil rights."
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