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[00:00.38] Rebecca: So, what do you think are some theories are then about that could lead into helping, you know, prevent crime?

[00:07.14] Gareth: Well, there's a story that I once read about, and it's the New York Subway, on how there was so much crime on the New York Subway.

[00:15.39] And they started cleaning up the subway and the trains, and they wouldn't allow any graffiti on the trains.

[00:21.88] Rebecca: Mm-hm.

[00:23.13] Gareth: And if a train went in the morning and stopped at a station, and someone wrote graffiti on the window or on the door, that train will be taken out of service -

[00:32.88] Rebecca: Wow.

[00:34.63] Gareth: --cleaned up, and then put back in service.

[00:37.13] It actually improved, or it kind of decreased the crime rate, so that there weren't so many crimes committed.

[00:43.13] There's a whole theory about this, and it's called - Broken Glass Theory.

[00:49.14] Like if you live in a community that doesn't care about the community, then, you're more likely to destroy it or to break it.

[00:59.63] Rebecca: Yeah.

[01:00.63] Gareth: If you do have a nice place to live and everyone respects that place, it tends to promote more respect in people.

[01:08.88] Rebecca: So, maybe a way to help decrease the crime rate would be to get everyone involved more in the community and to build - to start a cleanup program or something along those lines.

[01:19.13] Gareth: Exactly, yeah. I can't remember a case a while back in America, where a group of students were into The Matrix.

[01:27.14] Rebecca: Mm-hm.

[01:28.13] Gareth: And it's a movie where they wear trenchcoats, these black trenchcoats.

[01:33.38] This group of students went to a school and they started killing people.

[01:38.63] And they promoted in the press that it was because of the movies that these kids were into and the games that they played.

[01:49.64] And they pretty much went into the school and they did everything like a shoot-them-up game, like a game, like Halo, or these games where this first-person shoots and you go through the level and you have to destroy the enemies and promote to the next level.

[02:06.39] Rebecca: Mm-hm.

[02:07.14] Gareth: They pretty much copied that kind of system strategy when they went into the school.

[02:11.13] So, the newspapers said that it's because of this that these kids killed everyone.

[02:18.88] Rebecca: Mm-hm.

[02:19.38] Gareth: But I don't know if that's actually true.

[02:23.13] I don't like - there are so many people that do play these games, these shoot-them-up games, and why aren't they going around killing other people?

[02:29.64] It's probably something else that happened to these kids that triggered them, and it didn't help that they were shooting people in these video games,

[02:39.64] but it wasn't the trigger. It probably was some other trauma in their life that caused it.