Even we think we're ruining the neighborhood.

I was thinking about Broken Windows Theory, and I stumbled across this article online. I disagree with its presentation of BWT: I believe Wilson and Kelling had actual crime in mind, not the perception of disorder, which strikes me as a separate phenomenon, when they developed the model. More specifically, BWT goes into what happens when people perceive disarray in a neighborhood, but not into what makes people perceive disarray, apart from actual crime and vandalism. Still, the article really struck me, as a Latino who has witnessed and experienced these strange racism-related phenomena first-hand.

I left the Broken Windows Theory parts out, and cut straight to the interesting tangent that constitutes the bulk of the article.

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