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City of Disorder

City of Disorder. How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics. Quality of Life Paradigm (CH. 2).

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City of Disorder

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  1. City of Disorder How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics

  2. Quality of Life Paradigm (CH. 2) • a set of concrete social control practices united by a political philosophy of that explained homelessness and disorder as a problem of personal responsibility and established punitivemethods for restoring social order and public civility • viewed prostitution, graffiti, young men hanging out on street corners, as well as panhandlers and squeegee men, as a source rather than a symptom of urban decline • used punitive tactics (in policing and social policy) rather than rehabilitative or structural reforms

  3. DEFINING URBAN LIBERALISM (CH. 3) • Political philosophy of many postwar cities that combined: • Entrepreneurial economic development strategies • Personal rehabilitation & social work approaches to social problems • Tolerance of social differences in the form of broad support for civil liberties • It accelerated the urban problems associated with the decline in public order in the 1980s and failed to adequately address them

  4. Urban liberalism • A coherent set of “urban liberal” policy tendencies can be seen in the practices of many urban mayors from the 1960s through the 1990s • In New York City, this included: • John Lindsay (1966–73) • Abraham Beame (1974–77) • Edward Koch (1978–89) • David Dinkins (1990–93)

  5. KEY ELEMENTS OF URBAN LIBERALISM • Belief that government planning & coordination is key to resolving social problems • RELIANCE ON EXPERTS FOR PLANNING • VS. LOCAL/COMMUNITY INPUT • EMPHASIZE (short-term) SOCIAL PROGRAMS • VS. STRUCTURAL/ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS • GOAL IS SOCIAL REINTEGRATION • VS. SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

  6. CONTRADICTIONS OF URBAN LIBERALISM • Unequal Development • Empty Empowerment • Hollow Tolerance

  7. THE RISE OF DISORDER (Ch. 4) • Homelessness • Prostitution • Graffiti

  8. The transformation of policing (Ch. 4) • Shift from law enforcement style to quality of life style of policing

  9. Core tactics of ‘q of L’ policing • Zero Tolerance • Stop & Frisk • Civil Enforcement • New laws, rules, and regulations • Flexible deployment

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