Instead of policing through slogans and rhetoric, the city should reshape its priorities by cutting the NYPD budget and police headcount, redirecting budget resources to community-based solutions to the roots of crime, like anti-poverty programs, housing and employment services. Do we need to pay cops to arrest fare-beaters and those who pee in public in the name of the “broken windows” theory, or are we smart enough as a city to subsidize public transportation and build more public restrooms?