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Topic: overcriminalization

A rally calling for an end to the NYPD policing policy called Broken Windows, Jan. 16, 2015, outside police union headquarters in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Fixing "broken windows"

Elias Isquith
Former Deerwood Academy assistant principal Tabeeka Jordan is led to a holding cell after a jury found her guilty, April 1, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP/Kent D. Johnson)

Our overcriminalization menace

Elias Isquith
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-590956p1.html'>Kris Schmidt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Police charge bullies' victim

Elias Isquith