Imagine you and a few friends are winding down, relaxing around a campfire outside your homes. Sounds peaceful, right? I’m sure many of us have probably experienced something similar. But for some ...

The NYPD's commitment to Broken Windows policing, the disarmingly simple idea that serious crimes are more likely to occur in disorderly environments than orderly ...

The city on Thursday opened another round of grants for small businesses to replace broken windows caused by vandalism or break-ins. “As a small business like us, we don’t want it to happen,” said ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Canton police and the Stark County Sheriff's Office are investigating break-ins and broken windows at six businesses in ...

If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller The Tipping Point, published 25 years ago. In the book ...

Twenty-first-century policymakers profess a deep commitment to “public health,” and they now apply the concept to the problem of violent crime in cities. When Joe Biden took office as president in ...

Although I commend Lucy Lannotti offering an opinion on the Broken Windows Theory of policing, her commentary and understanding of this framework fall well short (“Blame our broken criminal justice ...