Gladwell should be the example used in every Stats 101 class to show that even if you’re really really bad at interpreting data, you can still have an entire career in that very field if you can speak with confidence and use big words that make people think you’re smart.

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A guy who argues we need more mass surveillance and arrests under the broken windows police model wants more cops? Shocked I say. Did cops not murder enough people this year, or?

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That is not in fact a fact. It is an opinion. And it's a bad one. What we should be investing in is economic security and less inequality instead of more police. Treat the cause not the symptoms and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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Or, we have too few after school programs, too few safe streets to get to and from school, too few trees in our urban spaces, too few grants to attend college, too few leaders who want life to be better for average Americans, too few affordable health care options, too few senior living facilities

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The only thing you need to know about the current state of American policing is their unions endorsed a criminal pedophile three times in a row.

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