("Broken Windows," first described in a 1984 Atlantic Monthly article by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, said that police should put as much effort into maintaining public order as in solving individual crimes. It essentially constituted a return to pre-Warren Era policing.)
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From 1966 until 1996, approximately 500,000 more Americans were murdered than would have been if crime rates had stayed at their 1960s levels. It would be no exaggeration to say that Americans experienced a 30-year "Crime War," suffering 500,000 casualties. It may not be difficult to remember how big a part crime played in the political arena, but recall that Mike Dukakis essentially lost the 1988 Presidential election when he gave a mealy-mouthed response to CNN anchor Bernard Shaw's question, "What would you do if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered?"
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/21/so-miranda-is-hobbling-police
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