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Accordingly, Gary Stewart writes that " The central drawback of the approaches advanced by Wilson, Kelling, and Kennedy rests in their shared blindness to the potentially harmful impact of broad police discretion on minority communities.
" This was seen by the authors, who worried that people would be arrested " for the ' crime ' of being undesirable ".
According to Stewart, arguments for low-level police intervention, including the broken windows hypothesis, often act " as cover for racist behavior ".
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