If a window is broken in a building and no one fixes it, soon all the other windows will also be broken. When a community shows signs of deterioration, without anyone interested in avoiding it, the crimes will arise. If “small faults” such as parking in a forbidden place, exceeding the speed limit or disrespect of a red light are not sanctioned, major faults will begin to develop, followed by even more serious crimes.
If parks and other public spaces are progressively deteriorated without anyone taking steps to avoid it, places will be abandoned by the population (because people no longer want to leave their homes for fear of offenders), and these The same abandoned spaces will be gradually occupied by criminals.
The studious response was even stronger, declaring that, in the face of abandonment and disorder, many social ills are developing and the environment is deteriorating.
Just see, for example, when a parent does not take care of some aspects of the house, such as the lack of paint on the walls in bad condition, or when there are bad cleaning habits, bad eating habits, language Displaced, disrespect between family members, etc., etc., etc.: A neglect of interpersonal relations gradually settles and the family begins to establish bad relations with society in general, and may one day go up to the Prison.
This is perhaps a hypothesis of the decay of society, the lack of respect for universal values, the lack of respect for society towards itself and the authorities (extortion and corruption) and vice versa, corruption at all Levels, lack of education and training for urban culture, lack of opportunities that created a country with broken windows, with many broken windows that no one seems to want to fix.
The theory of broken windows was applied for the first time in the mid-years 80 in the New York subway, which had become the most dangerous part of the city. They began to fight against the small transgression: the graffiti that deteriorating the places, the dirt of the stations, the drunkenness of the users, the evasion of the payment of the tickets, the petty and the Troubles. The results were obvious…
Having started with the smallest one is thus able to secure the subway.
Later, in 1994, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliano, based on broken window theory and subway experience, propelled a “zero tolerance” policy.
The strategy was to create clean and tidy communities that did not allow violations of the law and the rules of urban life.
The practical result was a huge drop in crime rates in New York City.
The term “zero tolerance” sounds like a sort of authoritarian and repressive solution, but its main concept is rather the prevention and promotion of social security conditions.
It is not a question of lynching the offender, or of the arrogance of the police, in fact, for abuses of power should also apply zero tolerance.
It is not a zero tolerance of the one who committed the crime, but a zero tolerance of the offence itself.
It is a question of creating clean, tidy communities, respectful of the law and the basic codes of the social coexistence of man.
It would be good to read again this theory and disseminate it.