Police stopped patrolling in New York and focused on only serious crime recently....Crime dropped.

Not a complete end of enforcement but it shows broken window policing might be stupidity on steroids.

I don't believe that, and willing to bet source numbers will show otherwise. Similar situation in SF, and I have recently observed two shopliftings at local stores, which I have never seen before. If officers only respond to $1000 damage or above, thugs know to only take $900 from the store. If police doesn't do anything, no one else CAN because the same laws comes back and bite you in the ass.

Here is the study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0211-5

Our criminal justice system has a heavy financial penalty component, I can see how this nickle and diming of certain economically at risk communities can result in more crime.

Ferguson is a great example, where the city made a large percentage of it's revenue overpolicing minorities (in many cases even planting drugs etc... As video evidence and DOJ investigations showed). This resulted in many escelations of fines/warrants/arrests for not being able to pay simple traffic/jaywalking etc fines.

Putting people in a position where they have to choose between paying rent/medical bills /food or escalating fines (for non payment). Also in many cases, if they could afford a lawyer these outcomes would be very different.

MLK talked about the "2 Americas", this is what the other one looks like.