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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 10:07 AM Dec 2014

Sending bad police tactics to Latin America.

Through their alliance with criminologist George Kelling of the conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, New York City Police Commissioner Bratton and former New York Mayor Giuliani have been preaching the broken-windows policing gospel to mayors and police departments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

In reality broken-windows policing, which does nothing to address the causes of crime, such as systemic poverty, is primarily designed to allow promising downtown spaces to gentrify for economic development and turns peripheral areas, where poverty is concentrated, into mini police states where all residents are potential suspects.

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/5146-latin-america-nypd-chief-wants-to-teach-the-worlds-police

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