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					Originally Posted by Adder  Maybe. Or maybe it was on demand abortion. Or reduced lead exposure. Or something we haven't figured out yet. 
 Crime fell off a cliff with or without broken windows policing.
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 That's not proven.  Even the authors of 
Freakonomics, from which you've borrowed the abortion argument, didn't assert that position. 
The truth is it's probably a combination of these factors.  But you cannot and never will be able to say that broken windows was not a contributing factor in NY.