Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

The "broken windows" strategy against Israel demonisation

Bad guys get away with murder when everyone else chooses to look the other way

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Melanie Phillips
May 20, 2022
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The “broken windows” theory of policing, which was responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. This was that bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored.

This transmits the fatal signal that those in authority …

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