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...British-born Canadian, Gladwell, 36, started thinking about the large consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...
...change--the gun debate alone is already deafening--but not all the social advocates are woolly-headed. The awkwardly named group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids counts eight crime survivors and more than a dozen police chiefs on its advisory board, including former New York City police commissioner William Bratton. The Washington-based group's four-point plan is touchingly well meaning: 1) give kids something to do after school; 2) make sure young children have access to quality child care; 3) help schools identify troubled kids early and provide counseling for them; 4) prevent child abuse...
...phenomenally effective. Robberies are down 50% in the past four years, and murders are down 60%. The real danger, some New Yorkers say, is that the criticism will cause the crime rate to rise once again. "We need to be careful," says former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton. "We don't want to oversensationalize it so the cops play turtle and decide not to get involved...
LEHIGH: Cavaco 3-10 2-3 10; Woodbine5-11 1-3 12; Simpkins 3-4 3-4 11; Tompkins 5-8 2-212; Yanke 1-2 0-1 2; Bratton 2-3 0-0 5; Smith 1-20-0 2; Kirkowski 0-0 0-0 0; Marschner 0-0 0-0 0;Reusch 1-2 2-2 4; Huhs 0-0 0-0 0; Williams 0-0 0-00; Kritzer 0-1 0-0 0; Powell 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS21...
...through such current luminaries as John Glenn, William Bratton and Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Freemasonry probably began formally in the 1600s as an English gentleman's club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies...