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To: Mama Bear who wrote (2638)	5/7/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 13056

Barb, I didn't mean that the absence of consensus meant that there could not be a change in the future, just that it was not a foreseeable solution.... About uniforms, as I said, I am skeptical, but it is true that gangs use clothing to differentiate themselves, and that people have been killed over Eddie Bauer jackets. Perhaps most importantly, there is reason to believe that the "broken windows" thesis associated with James Q. Wilson was correct, and that small signs of pride and discipline, or the opposite, can have effects in blighted communities... On the last, ditto....