The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is ...

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James Q. Wilson, who helped launch revolution in law enforcement, was 80. Harvard government professor James Q. Wilson is shown in Boston in 1972. Wilson, a political scientist whose ‘broken windows’ ...

BOSTON (AP) – Political scientist James Q. Wilson, whose “broken windows” theory on crime-fighting helped trigger a nationwide move toward community policing, died Friday at a Boston hospital. He was ...

In 1982, criminologists James Wilson and George Kelling introduced the “broken windows theory” in criminal justice. They argued that small signs of neglect, like a broken window, could signal disorder ...

Q: I enjoyed reading the “A different kind of patrol” article (SMDP, Feb. 9, page 1) last week. What is the “broken windows theory?” A: Great question. The broken windows theory was originally ...

Pueblo City Council approved $50,000 for the Small Business Window Repair Mini-Grant Program on Oct. 27. Here's what the ...

Celebrating the close of the calendar and the fresh beginning of a new year is often considered a joyous, celebratory moment in time. For many, New Year’s brings a renewed determination toward ...

Regarding Walter Russell Mead’s “Stale Foreign-Policy Ideas Imperil America” (Global View, Aug. 20): In the 1990s, Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped revive New York City through a “broken-windows” policy, in ...

From Paul Goldberger to Herbert Muschamp, the architecture section of The New York Times has long been the back-alley ghetto of critical coverage. Now, with his latest review, Nicolai Ouroussoff ...

When I used to live in Colorado, I noticed a strange pattern at trailheads. Some had colorful piles of bagged dog poop stacked around the signposts, while others were perfectly clean. What was ...

I recently wrote about the lessons I learned from Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson, a 20-year-old book that changed the way I keep house. One such lesson that Mendelson talks about is the "broken ...