George L. Kelling is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Kelling is currently researching organizational change in policing and the development of comprehensive community crime prevention programs.

Kelling has practiced social work as a child care worker, a probation officer, and has administered residential care programs for aggressive and disturbed youths. In 1972, he began work at the Police Foundation and conducted several large-scale experiments in policing, most notably the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. The latter was the source of his contribution to his most familiar publication in the Atlantic, “Broken Windows,” with James Q. Wilson. During the late 1980s, Kelling developed the order maintenance policies in the New York City subway that ultimately led to radical crime reductions. Later he consulted with the New York City Police Department as well, especially in dealing with “squeegeemen.”

His most recent major publication is Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, which he has published with his wife, Catherine M. Coles. Currently he is studying organizational change in policing and the development of comprehensive community crime prevention programs. He has two children and four grandchildren.

Kelling is a graduate of St. Olaf College (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.S.W.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.).

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Articles/Op-eds

• William Bratton Would Be Good For The Met, Washington Examiner, 08-24-11
• Principles of Crime Prevention, CitiesOnAHill.org, 12-02-09
• 'Broken Windows' Works, Forbes.com, 07-16-09
• The Blue Front Line, Dallas Morning News, 10-01-07
• The DA's Misguided Move, The Boston Globe, 09-26-07
• Crime Fighting & Counterterrorism, RealClearPolitics, 09-20-07
• Amid City's Violence Are Plans For Peace, The Star-Ledger, 04-09-07
• The Right Way Of Policing, New York Post, 01-21-07
• There Are No Cracks in the Broken Windows, National Review Online, 02-28-06
• The LAPD Is Targeting Crime on Skid Row, Not the Homeless, Los Angeles Times, 03-11-03
• A Policing Strategy New Yorkers Like, The New York Times, 01-03-02
• Tough Cops Matter, New York Post, 12-19-01
• Cutting Crime, Keeping Our Rights, The New York Times, 04-01-00
• Policing Under Fire, Wall Street Journal, 03-23-99
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Books

• Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, November 1996

Research

• Policing Terrorism Civic Bulletin 43, September 2006
• This Works: Crime Prevention and the Future of Broken Windows Policing Civic Bulletin 36, May 2004
• This Works: Preventing and Reducing Crime Civic Bulletin 32, March 2003
• Do Police Matter? An Analysis of the Impact of New York City’s Police Reforms Civic Report 22, December 2001

City Journal articles

• Who Will Police the Criminologists?, Spring 2011
• The Mounting Evidence That Broken Windows Works, 23 September 2009
• How New York Became Safe: The Full Story, 17 July 2009
• The Blue Front Line in the War on Terror, 20 September 2007
• Policing Does Matter, Winter 2002
• Not So Minor, Winter 1996
• How to Run a Police Department, Autumn 1995
• Taking Back the Streets Summer 1994
• Neighborhood Cops Winter 1994
• The Quality of Life—What Should Be Done? Winter 1994
• Thinking About Crime: Is There a Right to Beg? Spring 1993
• Police Accountability—A Better Way Winter 1993
• Measuring What Matters: A New Way of Thinking About Crime and Public Order Spring 1992
• Crime and Metaphor: Toward a New Concept of Policing Autumn 1991
• Can Neighborhoods Save the City? Spring 1991
• The Contagion of Public Disorder Spring 1991
• Reclaiming the Subway Winter 1991
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