The Impact of Broken Windows Policing on Black Communities - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

In an effort to switch the focus back to police accountability, Gangi needed to find a way to shift public focus back to eliminating harmful police practices, namely Broken Windows and Quotas. Since the attacks on NYPD officers, PROP - and...See moreIn an effort to switch the focus back to police accountability, Gangi needed to find a way to shift public focus back to eliminating harmful police practices, namely Broken Windows and Quotas. Since the attacks on NYPD officers, PROP - and other reform groups like them - could no longer depend on large turnouts for city-wide protests and demonstrations. Gangi would have to work with a fraction of the volunteers they had following the Eric Garner ruling, but still garner a large response from the public. The solution came in the form of a public demonstration, what Gangi calls the "Park Slope Action." Picture activists approaching White residents in Park Slope, a gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn, with fake summons. PROP volunteers cited primarily jaywalking, an infraction strictly enforced in low-income communities of color in New York. The event managed to gather an increasingly large amount of press coverage and notoriety.See less