Policing

NYPD's Broken Windows 'targets marginalized groups and focuses on low-level infractions,' should be abandoned: watchdog group

Broken Windows policing is busted — and needs to be thrown out, a police watchdog group says in a report released Thursday.
"It is past time that the city abandon its wasteful, ineffective and biased application of Broken Windows policing that targets marginalized groups and focuses on low-level infractions which many people see as innocuous or annoying at worst," says the report by the Police Reform Organizing Project. "The city should concentrate its resources on supporting proven problem-solving programs and services that address social and economic problems and inequities."