Zero tolerance - not quite the influence on NSW policing some would have you believe

'The changes that are being seen in policing practice have less to do with the influence of zero tolerance and more to do with a major organisational overhaul...For just as the majority of operational tactics employed by New York police in implementing zero tolerance have little relevance to policing the central business district of Sydney, so to, does high profile saturation style city operations have little relevance to providing policing services in suburbia.