Prior to the 1990’s, the law enforcement officers were not extremely strict in the way of vigilance and it was extremely easy to get away with crimes. This was completely changed with the idea of zero tolerance policing. Zero tolerance policing is the concept of officer enforcing every facet of the law. The original idea of zero tolerance policing was brought about in the by the safe and clean neighborhoods act, which had the same underlying assumptions and concepts. However, it was quickly dropped and forgotten due to the fact that law enforcement officers in the upper west coast disliked the idea of foot patrol because they felt as though it limited their mobility (Kelling and Wilson, 1982). Although this method of policing was forgotten
