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 safetyby 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
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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