Japan’s police box system exists almost nowhere else.
Brazil tried it.
It failed.
American researchers examined it.
They passed.
The idea sounds simple:
Put police officers in the neighborhood.
Let them know the residents.
Let the residents know them.
But there’s a catch.
A system built on trust only works where trust already exists.
Japan didn’t succeed because of the police boxes.
The police boxes succeeded because of Japan.
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