The number of those arrested in metro new York break dancers and beggars has decreased significantly compared to the 2014-th year, when the mayor was bill de Blasio.
It is reported Politico, citing data from the Department of the new York police Department (NYPD).
A year before de Blasio became mayor, the police of new York held 153 arrested in the subway for dancing and 385 arrests for begging.
But in 2014, the year the first police Commissioner, bill Bratton, had a sort of «crusade» campaign against the break dancers in the subway. Then, the numbers of arrests jumped to 358 — the break and 680 for begging.
As explained such actions itself Bratton, break dancers in the subway can just scare other passengers, and the number of arrests associated with the response strategies in new York the theory of «Broken Windows».
Recall is a criminological theory of adjudicating minor offences as an active factor affecting the level of crime in General. The theory is formulated in 1982 by American sociologists, it takes its name from the authors cited a typical example of the theory: «If a building has one broken window, and no it does not replace, then after a while in this building will not remain a single whole window».
In 2015, the number of arrests fell again — 256 for dancing, 357 — for begging, in 2016-m to year the police conducted only 203 of arrest, break-dancers and 88 beggars. And, it seems, this trend continues. Since the beginning of 2017 in new York 71 times arrested for dancing in the subway and only 9 times for begging.
However, lawyers believe that even this is not enough. «Despite the fact that the numbers have decreased, it’s still weird that the NYPD is spending time and resources to deal with the dancers in the subway,» says Tina Luongo, the attorney for the legal aid Society. According to counsel, arrest, mostly young people from low-income families, African — and Latin Americans. Due to litigation in the end they are going to school, while their parents work.
The head of the civil liberties Union of new York Donna Lieberman criticized the program of the social security de Blasio and now supports a reduction in the number of arrests for dancing in the subway. «We doubt that dancing in the subway is something that you would want to arrest people,» says Donna Lieberman.
