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Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system... |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jan 6 19:15:43 2008, in response to Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system..., posted by Russ on Sun Jan 6 10:16:14 2008. That has nothing to do with economic growth. It has a lot more to do with the whole city living through 9-11 together than anything else.There are other more likely reasons: In 1977, the city remembered the peacefulness of the 1965 blackout and didn't expect the looting, in 2003, with the lessons of 1977 learned, the police were properly deployed where needed to discourage blackout-related crime. Still more likely is that in 1977 petty crime was more tolerated and one was more likely to get away with it than in 2003. The blackout was simply an explosion of that kind of crime that became more serious. Luckily the city got serious about stopping minor crime in the 1990s. You bring up a good point with the link about the broken windows theory. |
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