Broken Windows, Damaged Gutters and Police Supervision

Broken Windows , Damaged Gutters , and Police Supervision

For ten years Officer Mike Strzykalski worked with the Merrysville police department utilizing the principle of no-nonsense ' policing where the productivity of the police officers was governed by meeting quotas with regard to tickets and arrests . For many years this was how the police in Merrysville worked , with a barrier between the police officers and the citizens of the town . This was the way in which the police officers grew accustomed to working , how they evaluated themselves , and how they were evaluated by superiors for

promotions This all ended when Chief Harold Furman came into office . Chief Furman believed in a more progressive form of policing where interaction with the community is encouraged in to solve problems , make the community a better place , and stop crime . Chief Furman set up mini precincts all over the city in to make the police force more prominent in their areas , and also introduced a new form of evaluation where the officers were not graded on their tickets and arrests but on their community interaction . Quotas became a thing of the past . With the demise of the well known , comfortable evaluation system , the police officers rebelled as they no longer understood the system by which they were to operate . Officer Strzykalski fought these changes until he began to notice damage to houses in the neighborhood which he patrolled Officer Strzykalski found out that the damage he viewed was the result of gang violence , so he...