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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

Freakonomics Radio

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Are Your Police Officers Doing What Works?

Alex murray of london's metropolitan police says broken windows works. But he agrees there is a downside to going after every low level offence. If you criminalize someone for a low level offence it will create, in the end, more victims of crime and probably have that individual incarterated. So some one makes a little mistake, coming down on them like a tun of bricks is not an effective strategy.

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