The God particle is an integral solution to explaining a theory of everything, and thus serves a useful purpose.

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Street stops increased substantially in New York in the mid-1990s, when, faced with overwhelming crime, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made stop and frisk an integral part of the city's law enforcement, relying on the "broken windows" theory that targeting low-level offenses helps prevent bigger ones.

WSJ: Trial over NYPD stop-and-frisk tactic set to begin