GGRA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Lead Paint, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Broken Windows Theory
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Kevin drum (2013) america"s real criminal element: lead" mother jones magazine htp://www. motherjones. com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline. Broken windows theory of crime ighing - tolerance of small crimes would create a vicious cycle ending with enire neighborhoods turning into war zones. But if you cracked down on small crimes, bigger crimes would drop as well. Giuliani won the elecion - he decentralized police operaions and gave precinct commanders more control, keeping them accountable with a pioneering system called compstat that tracked crime hot spots in real ime. Rape rates had dropped 17 percent, assault 27 percent, robbery 42 percent, and murder an astonishing 49 percent. John diiulio said there would be millions of young males called juvenile super-predators. Doubts remained because: violent crime actually peaked in new york city in 1990, four years before the giuliani- By the ime they took oice, it had already dropped 12 percent: it"s not just new york that has seen a big drop in crime, it was all ciies.
