Charles Fain Lehman
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Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst • Senior Editor @CityJournal • Crime, Drugs, Vice, Cities • Opinions my own
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On the night of September 11th, Congressional leadership held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol to reassure the nation. After they were done speaking and holding a moment of silence, as everyone is shuffling away, someone started singing. In a few seconds, everyone—Republican and Democrat—joins in together to sing "God Bless America." When The Free Press asked me to write about a Great American for their 250th series, I thought of that moment. And then I wrote about Irving Berlin, the man who loved America enough that this was the song our leaders reached for to express their hope in one of our darkest hours. I hope you'll read it 👇
Charles Fain Lehman137,267 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
![Broken Windows Theory is a way of giving an intellectual grounding for your objections to the state of urban decay in many major cities in America. As I alluded to earlier, there's a public campaign that is asking you not to care about what happens to our cities. It is asking you not to care that people sleep in public, that people sell sex, that people do drugs. It is saying that you should not notice those things, that is arbitrary, racist, and unjust. And my argument is that actually you, as a member of the community with an equal right to enjoyment of the public and public space, have every legitimate and objective reason to say, "No, I don't need to put up with that and I don't need to vote for people, I don't need to endorse political projects that hold that as a legitimate view." Broken windows theory was successful because it's true, but also because it gave advocates of law and order a reason and an argumentative justification for reclaiming their cities—in the 1990s, for saying, "We don't need to put up with what New York City is like. We can and should demand better than this." Public disorder really does strike at the heart of our society. The community really does have an interest in keeping the peace over and above endless criminal license. We recognize that for hundreds of years in this country, [as did] our legal forefathers, because it's true. And therefore you do not need to be bullied into believing otherwise. - Me University of Austin (UATX)](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2062156907557831032/amplify_video_thumb/2062156852864106496/img/THlb_QRr06XjSaBa.jpg)
Broken Windows Theory is a way of giving an intellectual grounding for your objections to the state of urban decay in many major cities in America. As I alluded to earlier, there's a public campaign that is asking you not to care about what happens to our cities. It is asking you not to care that people sleep in public, that people sell sex, that people do drugs. It is saying that you should not notice those things, that is arbitrary, racist, and unjust. And my argument is that actually you, as a member of the community with an equal right to enjoyment of the public and public space, have every legitimate and objective reason to say, "No, I don't need to put up with that and I don't need to vote for people, I don't need to endorse political projects that hold that as a legitimate view." Broken windows theory was successful because it's true, but also because it gave advocates of law and order a reason and an argumentative justification for reclaiming their cities—in the 1990s, for saying, "We don't need to put up with what New York City is like. We can and should demand better than this." Public disorder really does strike at the heart of our society. The community really does have an interest in keeping the peace over and above endless criminal license. We recognize that for hundreds of years in this country, [as did] our legal forefathers, because it's true. And therefore you do not need to be bullied into believing otherwise. - Me University of Austin (UATX)
Charles Fain Lehman20,440 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
"The order maintenance tradition is fundamental to the organization of the American polity. It says that in addition to the interests of the criminal, in addition to the interest of the state, there's an interest of the community, a public interest, in peace and orderliness. And that public interest is predicate to us having a functioning society. Broken Windows theory, at root, is the idea that the community has such an interest, that that interest is legitimate, and that it can and should trump the right of the disorderly to engage in antisocial behavior." A few weeks ago, University of Austin (UATX) invited me to speak to their students about crime, disorder, policing, and broken windows theory. My full remarks are now available. I hope you'll watch.
Charles Fain Lehman18,506 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
One of the reasons I think people responded so strongly to my work on public disorder is, well, that you're not supposed to notice public disorder. I don't think, though, that that's just about "wokeness." It's about how disorder doesn't *fit* with our understanding of crime.
Charles Fain Lehman12,574 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
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