President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington will include a renewed effort to eliminate graffiti, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said on Aug. 17.
“Graffiti left untouched to scar public spaces is the visual declaration of a society’s surrender,” Miller wrote in an Aug. 17 post on X. “The graffiti is coming down in Washington, DC.”
Miller’s remark about a “surrender” on the part of society appears to be a reference to the “broken windows” theory, a criminology concept introduced in the 1980s by Harvard academics James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. They theorized that unaddressed visible signs of neglect and vandalism harm communities by encouraging people to commit more serious crimes….
Stephen Miller Says Trump’s DC Crackdown Will Also Target Graffiti
