Collectively, all three articles portray “Quality of Life” policing and the Broken Windows Theory as concepts that are based on unreasonable assumptions about humanity itself.  In Giuliani Time: The Revanchist 1990s, Neil Smith states that Giuliani blamed “the downward spiral of urban decay” on graffiti artists, unruly youth, homeless people, panhandlers, prostitutes among other clusters of individuals.  Once these factors for unrest were identified, policy in the ‘betterment of New York City’ was created around pushing out those signs of disorder.  This folds itself over into the Broken Window Theory generated by George Kelling and James Wilson.  In Turnstile Jumpers and Broken Windows,Tanya Erzen states that the broken window theory is based on the idea that an area that looks disorderly gives way to more serious crimes.  This disorderly aesthetic includes the presence of homeless individuals, broken windows and trash covered streets.  So there comes along this theory that supports the idea that these groups on individuals that Giuliani states cause the city to look disorderly, actually increase the crime rate.  Ultimately this system of thinking finally gives way to quality of life policing.  In the article “Quality of Life” Policing, it states that there is massive amount of power given to police to decide who gets punished on a major level for minor crimes such as  panhandling and littering.  This is justified under the idea that, as Erzen states, “…New York is a city where graffiti taggers, turnstile jumpers, and kids in a public park are either already criminals or simply criminals in the making”.  Yet, the more that I look at the ideas presented in these articles, the more I see explanations that are made up in order support a horrible solution to a societal problem.  Just by giving the police power to aggressively eradicate anything that they deem looks “disorderly” does not cause a more stable society, but a society that fears its justice system instead of depends on it.  What we need to look towards is not “quality of life” policing, that boils people down into simple beings and allows some police officers to easily act on prejudice tendencies, but create a system that brings about equality and a community’s faith in the police system.