Broken Window Policing Case Study

When the city university of New York professor named Harry Levine went through New York City arrest statistics for drug offense, he was shocked when he found out the number of simple possesion arrest. From 1978 to 1988 and 1988 to 1998 about three thousand possession arrest a year however, from 1998 to 2008 about thirty thousand arrest was made for simple possesion. In 1994 Bratton and Mayor Giuliani made the “zero tolerane” their platform of the crime stratigies. Broken windows policing strategy were also practiced. The broken window policing is that focus on the minor crimes like beating, jaywalking, litering, etc and it will make the serious crime go down. Under Bratton Marijuana arrests went up but it didnt sky rocket. Then in april 1996