Instant Gratification: DOJ Rolls Up Minnesota Goons for Church Disruption Stunt

You’re probably familiar with the “broken window” concept as a means of maintaining public order. According to the theory, visible signs of disorder — such as broken windows, graffiti, or trash strewn about — encourage still more decay and disorder, compounding the declining conditions. In law enforcement, this principle translates to the enforcement of minor crimes — turnstile jumping, loitering, and shoplifting, for example — to maintain an orderly, law-abiding community. It pretty much works every time it’s tried.

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This is one of the reasons why those of us who like law and order have been so very frustrated by the lack of consequences for leftist agitators who clearly break the law, on video, with impunity. But anywhere leftists control the levers