New York Times columnist Charles Blow accuses the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald of "romanticizing" the police activism often known as "broken windows" policing in a Wall Street Journal article upon which we commented. There is little "romantic" about diligent policing.
In point of fact, it begins with the well-known maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Broken windows policing is the police playing offense; it is a conscious societal policy of suppressing the criminal underclass.
Broken window policing mostly offends liberals who empathize with our criminal underclass, who "romanticize" hoodlums or feel sorry for them. What became abundantly clear was this: where vigorously applied, it worked. Crime rates dropped.
