diff --git a/content/quotes/alex-s-vitale/index.md b/content/quotes/alex-s-vitale/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d37da1a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/quotes/alex-s-vitale/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ ++++ +title = "Alex S. Vitale" +weight = 97 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["quotes", "alex s vitale", "police", "inequality"] ++++ + +> "Broken windows policing is at root a deeply conservative attempt to shift +> the burden of responsibility for declining living conditions onto the poor +> themselves and to argue that the solution to all social ills is increasingly +> aggressive, invasive, and restrictive forms of policing that involve more +> arrests, more harassment, and ultimately more violence. +> +> As inequality continues to increase, so will homelessness and public +> disorder, and as long as people continue to embrace the use of police to +> manage disorder, we will see a continual increase in the scope of police +> power and authority at the expense of human and civil rights."