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Date Posted: 13:37:39 03/09/05 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: When know-it-alls really know nothing...
In reply to: 's message, "Illegals are like broken windows.." on 18:45:34 03/07/05 Mon

First, Rudy Giuliani did not conceive the "Broken Windows Theory." The phrase and theory were conceived in the early 1980s (1982, I believe) by a respected sociologist named James Q. Wilson. Moreover, the Broken Windows Theory deals with overall social devolution, not merely crime (though crime is one aspect). The Broken Windows Theory doesn't exactly work the way you claim, and your attempt to use it to curtail problems stemming from illigal immigration is both unimaginative and inapposite, due to a variety of factors.

>remember rudy guiliani's "broken window" philosophy of
>crime? if you start taking action against the
>squeegee men, grafitti artists, unkempt
>property....then somehow the rate of more serious
>crimes starts to go down as well.
>
>the case of illegals is the same; the stricter we
>start to become about protecting borders, checking on
>green cards, making sure employers check social
>security numbers, etc. then a lot of the urban drug
>and gang problems will start to recede.
>
>congrats to morganelli for having enough character to
>take on this politically correct issue.
>
>La Raza....take that!

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