How to Fix the World, NYPD-Style|5 Minute Video
Is there a middle ground in between the aggressive foreign policy of the Bush Administration and the passive and hesitant foreign policy of the Obama Administration? Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal, describes how the NYPD’s “damaged windows” policy– promptly and powerfully penalizing even petty crimes– can be used by the United States on a worldwide scale.
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Script:
When it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Americans need to sometimes feel like Goldilocks in the three bears’ house.
The porridge that was President George W. Bush’s “liberty agenda”– appealing democracy for everyone from Karachi to Casablanca– was too hot. The mush making up President Barack Obama’s foreign policy– deeply ambivalent about making uses of U.S. power– is too cold.
How can the U.S. impose fundamental global standards of decency, deter opponents, and reassure friends without forgeting our nationwide interests?
There is a proven design that has absolutely nothing to do with foreign policy. It has to do with policing our most difficult central cities.
In 1990, New York City had a murder rate of more than 30 murders for each 100,000 people. By 2012, it had been up to a rate of 5 per 100,000. A comparable, if a little less dramatic, story unfolded in every other major U.S. city– regardless of the truth that many of the aspects frequently cited to discuss criminal offense– bad schools, damaged homes, hardship, the occurrence of weapons, unemployment– remained mainly the exact same.
What happened?
In 1982, George Kelling, a criminologist at Rutgers, and James Q. Wilson, a political scientist at Harvard, wrote an essay entitled “Broken Windows.” It had long been understood that if one broken window wasn’t replaced, it would not be long before all the other windows were broken too. Why? Due to the fact that, they wrote, “one unrepaired damaged window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs absolutely nothing.”
Municipalities that embraced policing strategies based on the broken-windows theory– the stringent enforcement of laws against minor criminal offenses and policing by foot patrols– authorized sharp drops in criminal activity and significant improvements in individuals’s quality of life.
Could it be that this “damaged windows” technique would operate in our increasingly disorderly world?
Absolutely. However, naturally, just if the approach is used.
After the totalitarian of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, used sarin nerve gas to murder more than 1,000 people near Damascus in August 2013, President Obama alerted that “if we stop working to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons.”
And after Russia seized Crimea in 2014, he denounced the Kremlin for “tough facts that only a few weeks ago seemed self-evident, that in the 21st century, the borders of Europe can not be redrawn with force.”
2 broken windows. 2 eloquent warnings.
The cautions didn’t amount to much. Bashar Assad stayed in power, and continued to utilize chemical weapons. And Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine carried on.
This is how we get to a broken-windows world: Rules are invoked but not imposed. And when guidelines aren’t implemented, more guidelines will be broken. One window breaks, then others.
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Is there a middle ground in between the aggressive foreign policy of the Bush Administration and the passive and reluctant foreign policy of the Obama Administration? Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal, discusses how the NYPD’s “broken windows” policy– quickly and powerfully penalizing even minor criminal offenses– can be applied by the United States on a worldwide scale.
It had actually long been understood that if one broken window wasn’t replaced, it wouldn’t be long before all the other windows were broken too. Because, they wrote, “one unrepaired damaged window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.”
One window breaks, then others.
