George L. Kelling is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Kelling is currently researching organizational change in policing and the development of comprehensive community crime prevention programs.

Kelling has practiced social work as a child care worker, a probation officer, and has administered residential care programs for aggressive and disturbed youths. In 1972, he began work at the Police Foundation and conducted several large-scale experiments in policing, most notably the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. The latter was the source of his contribution to his most familiar publication in the Atlantic, “Broken Windows,” with James Q. Wilson. During the late 1980s, Kelling developed the order maintenance policies in the New York City subway that ultimately led to radical crime reductions. Later he consulted with the New York City Police Department as well, especially in dealing with “squeegeemen.”

His most recent major publication is Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities, which he has published with his wife, Catherine M. Coles. Currently he is studying organizational change in policing and the development of comprehensive community crime prevention programs. He has two children and four grandchildren.

Kelling is a graduate of St. Olaf College (B.A.), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.S.W.), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.).

Select Media

• Jerry Doyle Show, Talk Radio Network, 08-20-07
• All Things Considered, NPR, 08-09-07
• Inside Trenton, WNET, 05-26-07

Articles/Op-eds

• New strategy, citizens can turn corner on crime By George L. Kelling and Ed Pawlowski, Allentown Morning Call, 07-27-07
• The blue front line By William Bratton, George Kelling and R.P. Eddy, Dallas Morning News, 10-01-07
• The DA's Misguided Move The Boston Globe, 09-26-07
• Crime Fighting & Counterterrorism by Chief William Bratton, R.P. Eddy and George Kelling, RealClearPolitics.com, 9-21-07 (This article originally appeared on City Journal Online, and is a National Review Online Web Briefing for 09-21-07)
• Amid city's violence are plans for peace By George Kelling and Michael Wagers, Newark Star-Ledger, 04-09-07
• The Right Way of Policing New York Post, 01-21-07
• Order and law: Attack minor offenses, theory goes, and major ones diminish By George Kelling, Robert Wasserman and Mike Wagers, Rocky Mountain News, 3-11-06
• There Are No Cracks in the Broken Windows by William Bratton and George Kelling, National Review Online, 2-28-06
• The LAPD Is Targeting Crime on Skid Row, Not the Homeless by William Bratton and George L. Kelling, LA Times 3-11-03
• A Policing Strategy New Yorkers Like New York Times, 1-3-02
• Tough Cops Matter By George L. Kelling & William H. Sousa, New York Post, 12-19-01
• Cutting Crime, Keeping Our Rights by George L. Kelling et al, The New York Times, April 1, 2000
• Policing Under Fire The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 1999
• Q: Is the rigorous enforcement of antinuisance laws agood idea? (by Catherine Coles and George Kelling) Insight, June 2, 1997
• Broken Windows: The police and neighborhood safety (by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling) The Atlantic Monthly, March 1982

Books

• Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities (The Free Press, November 1996)

City Journal Articles

• The Blue Front Line in the War on Terror, 20 September 2007
• Policing Does Matter, Winter 2002
• Not So Minor, Winter 1996
• How to Run a Police Department, Autumn 1995
• Taking Back the Streets, Summer 1994
• Neighborhood Cops, Winter 1994
• The Quality of Life—What Should Be Done?, Winter 1994
• Thinking About Crime: Is There a Right to Beg?, Spring 1993
• Police Accountability—A Better Way, Winter 1993
• Measuring What Matters: A New Way of Thinking About Crime and Public Order, Spring 1992
• Crime and Metaphor: Toward a New Concept of Policing, Autumn 1991
• Can Neighborhoods Save the City?, Spring 1991
• The Contagion of Public Disorder, Spring 1991
• Reclaiming the Subway, Winter 1991