New York was once the murder capital of the world. Thanks to the zero-tolerance policing policy introduced by Giuliani, the mean streets have turned into clean ones.
ⅠThere are some aspects about the policy:
1) The policing is based on a 1983 paper called "Broken Windows", which
suggested a clamp-down on (1) ______ as a way of lowering all crime. (1) ______
2) The responsibility for ways of fighting crime devolved from a centralised
(2) ______to precinct commanders, and police used computers to track (2) ______
and target crime (3) ______ more easily. (3) ______
Ⅱ This transformation attracted (4) ______ (4) ______
However, some people do not like "zero tolerance".
reasons:
1) It implies a lack of tolerance for any deviation from (5) ______ (5) ______
2) The (6) ______ is exactly what zero-tolerance policing encourages. (6) ______
3) The crime rates spiral up and down in unexplained cycles and they are
no (7) ______ to reducing crime. (7) ______
4) The drop in crime had to come with the introduction of almost any new
tough police policy, because (8) ______ was so high. (8) ______
5) The zero-tolerance policing is a dangerous fad that risks creating an
arrogant police force because it gives police (9) ______ (9) ______
There are also some persons supporting the policy.
reasons:
But police president O’ Connor calls zero-tolerance policing a "win-win solution". Other factors must be considered for long-term solutions. Highlighting New York’ s success provides (10) ______. to police and the communities themselves that (10) ______
crime can be stopped.