Scotland Yard plans to pump classical music into a north London housing project to quell violence — but New York City won’t let Beethoven walk the beat.
Adam Weber, the constable in 🍰charge of law and order at the notorious Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, was inspired to use calming tunes as a crime-fighting tool following a pilot program in the London Underground, where music was piped into 40 stations to reduce anti-social behavior, T🌺he Sunday Times of London reported.
The tactic was first tri♊ed in 2003 in a tube station with a gang problem. After the music began playing, robberies dropped 33 percent.
Weber said the eไxperiment “was pretty effective. Incidents of verbal and physical abuse fell where it was installed, soꦬ I thought, ‘Let’s give this a go.’”
Relations between the 4,844 residents and the police💮 have been bad for decades. A 1985 riot resulted in the murder of a bobby. Further rioting broke out in the summer of 2011 after police fatally shot a resident during an arrest.
Authorities in G🎀otham wer🐼e singing a different tune.
“While Mozart is quite literally a classic, we trust NYPD’s current tactics as crime is at a record low in NYC. But if it was Bach, there would be no question,”꧅ quipped a City Hall spokeswoman.
The NYPD and ꧑Housing Authority declined to comment, but Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD detective sergeant and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was skeptical.
“If playing M😼ozart would solve crime, it would 𓃲have been used since the 1700s,” he said. “It doesn’t and it won’t.”