New Jersey avoids a civil rights suit over racial profiling.
Opportunities for professional development. The strength of a metaphor, he says, is that it helps people wrap their minds around a fairly complex issue. The disadvantage is that once the metaphor is gets a life of its own, it begins to block thinking. In addition, as has happened with the broken windows concept, a metaphor can breed bastard children like zero-tolerance campaigns, crackdowns and sweeps, terms that Kelling declares are anathema to his philosophy of policing. Windows Few departments give officers the kind of guidance they need.