what would have happened if

and instead of like reacting to the broken windows theory by right doing

mass incarceration and stop and frisk policing and zero-tolerance policing

what if we responded to broken windows by

fixing the damn windows fixing the windows

hello and welcome to wise is happening with me your host crises

you know there's a lot of talk these days about

American society being broken in some ways and I you know

back and forth about it because there's a kind of presentism

that we're all susceptible to where the moment we're in feels like the worst

moment or the most intense moment or the most dramatic moment

and then you read history and you're like well

there was lots of other times when things were pretty crazy and out of control

like in the 19 teens there were anarchists just like sending off bombs all the

time in all over the place and then the pomerades and

like that must have felt pretty polarized and vulcanized

and obviously they run up to the war and the racist terrorism of the redemption

period in the Jim Crow South and 1960s when there were political

assassinations happening left and right and terrorist groups of various types

in airline hijacking so there's you can sort of be susceptible to thinking

that it's really bad now even as you look at history understand that

there have been moments of much higher level of conflict but one thing I

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