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saturation policing  

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  • Zero-tolerance policing is most commonly referred to as a policing strategy in which police resources are used to aggressively enforce criminal (and in some situations civil) laws. Zero-tolerance policing goes by a variety of different labels including, but not limited to, quality-of-life policing, incivilities policing, broken-windows policing, and order-maintenance policing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Zero-Tolerance/Saturation Policing]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/saturation_policing

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