The other commenter was actually just mixing it up with the broken windows fallacy[0]. Funnily enough, it's a common enough confusion that both of the pages reference each other at the top of the page.
This article is about the economic parable. For the criminological theory, see Broken windows theory.
Comments
I think you are making a confusion about what's the broken windows theory, I suggest reading about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
The other commenter was actually just mixing it up with the broken windows fallacy[0]. Funnily enough, it's a common enough confusion that both of the pages reference each other at the top of the page.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
ah I see my mistake.