In the village of Santo Domingo, the ICRC sets up its clinic in the long abandoned health centre - a dilapidated three-room building with broken windows, and, like the rest of the village, no electricity.

BBC: News, River Caguan, Colombia

They are not that way anymore and we made the changes with the CompStat program, the broken windows theory and with very, very good leadership.

CNN: Giuliani's responses at the CNN/YouTube debate

She said the homes of workers had been attacked with stones and their windows broken.

BBC: Northern Ireland Assembly

This strategy should not be confused with the much-discussed "broken windows" approach, which New York has not consistently used.

WSJ: Stopping Urban Crime Without Jail Time

Detroit could be the city to buck this trend, with its well-documented urban decay, its abundant broken windows.

FORBES: Detroit Picks Broken Theory To Fight Crime

Had the city followed through on its broken-windows policing, it would have concentrated precious resources in marginal neighborhoods rather than in those with the highest crime.

FORBES: Chicago, Summer Crime, and the Slide Toward Detroit