Justice
A New Way of Understanding 'Eyes on the Street'
Turning neighbors into the "eyes and ears of the police" can actually reinforce fear and violence.
Even if you've never read The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs's 1961 masterpiece of urban observation and theory, you probably are aware of one of its key concepts: the value of "eyes on the street."
Jacobs wrote that in order for a street to be a safe place, "there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street."