i the opportunity to meet rafael several years ago, george kelling was in his last year of life. he had had a long bout with cancer. george was a friend. colleague mentor, coauthor. it's just an extraordinary individual who had influence on these issues. his seminal work with jim wilson broken windows. i was the practitioner of his seminal work broken windows. i was a practitioner of broken windows and put the theories into practice with great success because they understood you could not focus just on serious crime. you also had to focus on the disorder, the broken windows people saw every day, the disorder but we are not attending to with any effectiveness at the moment was rafael and his book basically looks at all these issues and explains the importance of them. i first met him when i went to new hampshire where he's living with his wife, captain cole, went up there four times in the last year and on the first visit there was a young man working with george and they were collaborating on something of great interest to george. in his last year on this earth the george was ver