Public trust stood to benefit from a relaxing of the “broken windows” approach, which aggressively prosecutes even the smallest infractions. With Begin Again, city leaders were only getting started....

Public trust stood to benefit from a relaxing of the “broken windows” approach, which aggressively prosecutes even the smallest infractions. With Begin Again, city leaders were only getting started. Concurrently, members of the City Council started to permanently decriminalize some of the same low-level offenses that were targeted in the amnesty program.