Friday, October 3, 2014

Is the Broken Windows Theory's ultimate goal to preserve the status quo to the point of elimination of others?

 Is the Broken Windows Theory's ultimate goal
 to preserve the status quo to the point of elimination of others?

 If you haven't read the article by these sociologists in the Atlantic I strongly suggest you read it  in  small bites if you must to get the full idea. It's a lot easier than reading the college papers  published by  Wilson and Kelling. The Atlantic article  circa 1982 is of course written above a 12th grade reading level, which is the audience (I could have said cohort)  exactly who Kelling and Wilson are  addressing  because they vote, they make money, and they like nice things.  No seriously- you need to know that this  group  wants to keep it this way. SO the question is- how far are they willing to go? 

In this Blog  I ask questions...   no  that's too easy - I posit   (I could have said propose)  that allowance of  graffiti in certain forms (commissioned graffiti on schools or on the sides  artistic lofts) is one way that you are controlled by this Broken Windows theory- when you do it on your own- you are a criminal, not an artist , nor are you exercising free speech   and instead you deal with the enforcers of those who vote, make  money and prefer that you basically stay away from their nice things unless you are for hire and have had a background check. 

Okay . SO the ultimate goal of this blog is to make you think and possibly spur you to vote to protect your own interests.Failing that- at least you will  know which way the wind is blowing.
Oh and I will be using the big SAT/GRE/policy words  (posit, cohort, etc. ) - not to show off, but to get you to see how you can be manipulated by what you do not understand. You need to be bi-lingual.

Broken Windows

The police and neighborhood safety

by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/crime/windows.htm

Now to be fair in this post I will let Kelling defend himself. , Wilson is dead, but Kelling is very much alive   and says that his theory is being misused even though he is now a consultant to the NYPD.  Of course he is being misused. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/nyregion/author-of-broken-windows-policing-defends-his-theory.html?_r=0

. Today's Question- what forces want  his theories taken to there logical conclusions. Bratton? Individual policemen ?
 NO Conspiracy - let's  instead look at what Kelling said last month, despite his efforts to direct his creation.
 I think he is in over his head.   When that happens,  others who can employ what his theory may  allow, use their heads to  possibly beat your head. Or use a choke-hold, or taunt you at the point of a gun.Contrary to popular belief, the "theory" of "Broken Windows" did not originally amount to much of a theory at all, certainly not as its progenitors—George Kelling and James Q. Wilson—first articulated it.
But in this 21st century - you can be sure that this theory of social control is being implemented by  bad interpretation  and  mal intent much in the same way intelligent people  thought eugenics were the answer to social ills.  (Now that is another whole column or two- so get ready for that post  by streaming Gattaca http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gattaca-1997. 

See you soon 


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