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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton believes targeting smaller crimes such as panhandling will prevent larger crimes from happening.
Beggars beware.
As of March 2, the NYPD this year had nabbed 274 panhandlers and peddlers on city subways, officials said Thursday.
That’s more than three times the amount arrested in the same period last year.
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The leap shows NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton still firmly believes in the broken window theory — which argues that targeting smaller crimes, such as panhandling, will prevent larger crimes from happening down the road.
“The Police Commissioner said in an address last week that more quality of life issues would be addressed, including aggressive panhandling,” NYPD spokesman Commissioner Stephen Davis said.
Panhandling arrests rose as Bratton announced he would conduct tours of the city’s transit system between midnight and 4 a.m. in the coming weeks with George L. Kelling, one of the authors of the broken windows theory, who has been retained as a department consultant.
Bratton first implemented the broken windows model to policing during his first stint as commissioner, back in the mid-1990s, when he served under former Mayor Giuliani.
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