He abhors any policy of unequivocally enforcing rules policing quality-of-life offenses, and repeatedly raises the suffering of the impoverished, recalling days when men playing dominoes on bridge tables and sipping beer from small cups would be cultivated, not handed a summons.
The director of school standards in each area will police quality of education – a revival of local education authorities by the back door, the Tories will claim.
By the time of Cole's rampant COST tagging in the late eighties and early nineties, graffiti had become a key piece of this broader strategy to police "quality of life" violations.
As Nad-e-Ali suggests, police quality, especially of the lower ranks, is a key priority.
Airlines buy millions of dollars of spare parts each year, and the question of how to police their quality has long vexed the agency.
I believe it improves the transparency of the review process, and it also helps me police the quality of my own assessments by making me personally accountable.
The elasticity that officers in New York and elsewhere have been given to police quality-of-life violations has had the unfortunate effect of leaving transgender women, especially, susceptible to the charge that they must be engaged in sex work.
"The decree calls for competitive rates to be given to police officers so we get quality policing.
If the standards can be objectively measured and policed (quantity rather than quality), the service can be contracted out, with some gain (at least theoretically) in competitive efficiency, balanced by some loss in flexibility and coordination.
Bratton, however, did embrace broken windows policing, including "quality of life" arrests of many low-level criminals, arguably planting seeds for that decade-long "stop and frisk" crusade that Benitez calls "humiliation, maybe even emasculation, of a segment of society".
But to stay the course, we sacrifice resources that could go toward policing or quality education, which is still the best remedy for preventing homicide.
