Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t...
by vorpalhex on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:02PM
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> the research done so far has not found any supporting evidence for this theory.
You are incorrect. Research is favorable with caveats:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002242781557657...
You may be conflating it with a VERY misreported meta analysis, the 2019 Daniel T O'Brien et al. which found BWT theory does not impact *mental health* of a neighborhood. He also normalized for SES which BWT is probably a direct predictor of (basically social funding).
> The mugger was not using a weapon.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/251914/number-of-robberi...
If you get mugged, that mugger almost certainly has a weapon. That you saw the exception does not alter the stats.
Anyway, I was trying to show that the broken windows theory is flawed. The broken windows theory suggests that if you stop shoplifting and other trivial crimes it’ll also prevent more violent crimes. That’s unlikely to be the case and the research done so far has not found any supporting evidence for this theory.