Freedom is never really free

In 1982, social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling postulated the Broken Window theory popularized by Malcom Gladwell in his 2000 best-seller The Tipping Point. This theory was used by the New York City Transit Police to clean up the hell hole that the city’s subway had become in the 1980s. Vagrants and muggers ruled the underground after dark. Drunks and drifters wallowed there and used platforms as urinals. The trains were dirty, damaged, littered and splattered with graffiti.

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