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Exhibition: Museum of Broken Windows
Private Draft
nina berman
Aug 29, 2018
September 22 – September 30, 2018
9 West 8th Street, NY, NY
I’m delighted to be contributing two pictures as part of this pop up show highlighting the NYPD’s failed policing strategy from Stop and Frisk to more lethal forms of police violence. Thanks to the New York Civil Liberties Union for leading the way.
“The Museum of Broken Windows is a pop-up experience in New York City, which features the work of artists from around the country. The Museum showcases the ineffectiveness of broken windows policing, which criminalizes our most vulnerable communities. The strategy of broken windows policing is outdated and has never been proven to be effective at reducing crime. For decades, communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by broken windows policing.”
Museum of Broken Windows
Summary of Broken WindowsThe broken windows theory is an academic theory proposed by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982. The academic theory, which first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, states that signs of disorder in...
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