>a run-down neighborhood with lots of broken windows will normalize behaviors that would be stigmatized elsewhere.

Of course, but...

>... as if replacing all the broken windows might somehow reduce crime. Of course this is pretty dumb

Calling it dumb seems to contradict the first quote above... If broken windows normalize bad behaviors, less broken windows would seem to prevent normalizing those behaviors.

>entrenched normalization of deviance (decades of bad/discriminatory policy) can’t simply be fixed by zealous application of punitive measures.

Why not? Punishing deviance prevents the normalization of deviance.

Curious, what would you think of broken windows policing as applied to high-crime white neighborhoods?