This latest plan, unveiled less than a month before the one - year mark of Eric Garner's death and one week before a video of a cop punching a Harlem man made the news, will likely seek to achieve two things: to create a larger pool of informants, and to
utilize public complaints to argue that Bratton's Broken Windows theory — the aggressive policing of low - level offenses to deter more serious crime — is what New Yorkers still want.