James Q. Wilson
Law vs. Order and George L. Kelling, in The Atlantic
Monthly (Mar. 1982), P.O. Box 2544,
Boulder. Colo. 80321.
Communities, not just individuals, need police protection-and not just from crime. Rowdy teenagers, drunks, and panhandlers need commit no crime to make decent citizens fearful and put a neighborhood on the skids. Police should maintain public order, not just solve crimes. And until recent decades, they did. So argue Wilson and Kelling, a Harvard government professor...