James Q. Wilson Quotes About Community

• Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mal, Hablar, Gente

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

• Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

  James Q. Wilson

  Drunk, Community, Unjust

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.132, American Enterprise Institute

• Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Community, Police

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.138, American Enterprise Institute

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