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The Broken Window criminology theory (not to be confused with the controversial Broken Window policing policies of the 1980s) argues that visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment encourage more disorder and misbehavior. Whether students of L.A.’s John C. Fremont High School in South L.A. were even aware of that theory, they clearly had an innate sense about it when some 219 of them responded to a survey asking, among other things, what were the most significant issues facing their school community. The number-one response: Too much trash and dumping. They inherently knew that in order for anyone to take pride in their littered campus, they would need to clean it up themselves first.
That’s why the school's Law and Social Justice club decided to organize a campus clean-up on March 19, and PESA, as a supporting CBO of the school, joined in support.