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===Comparison to "zero tolerance"=== Broken windows policing is sometimes described as a "[[zero tolerance]]" policing style,<ref name="The Broken Windows Theory">{{Citation |last=Adams |first=Joan |url=https://www.supplyht.com/articles/89868-adams-on-pvfsupply-the-broken-windows-theory |title=The "Broken Windows" Theory |year=2006 |magazine=Supply House Times |publisher=UBC |place=[[Canada]] |access-date=2020-02-19 |archive-date=2020-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225094002/https://www.supplyht.com/articles/89868-adams-on-pvfsupply-the-broken-windows-theory |url-status=live }}</ref> including in some academic studies.<ref name="Sridhar 1841β43">{{cite journal |last=Sridhar |first=C.R. |title=Broken Windows and Zero Tolerance: Policing Urban Crimes |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=13β19 May 2006 |volume=41 |issue=19 |pages=1841β43 |jstor=4418196}}</ref> Bratton and Kelling have said that broken windows policing and zero tolerance are different, and that minor offenders should receive lenient punishment.<ref name="brattonkelling">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-we-need-broken-windows-policing-13696.html |title=Why we need Broken Windows policing |magazine=[[City Journal]] |author=William Bratton, George Kelling |date=December 2014 |access-date=18 December 2017 |archive-date=27 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727005303/https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-we-need-broken-windows-policing-13696.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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