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The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

Colin Ward

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Colin Ward
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: August 14
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
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