It seems quaint how people used to spend time and effort creating detailed imagery based on a seemingly random premise.

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Also, just jaw-dropping that in the article--which I've now read, and which I realize is an excerpt from a book--he never notes the correlation between staffing and TRAINING. Many angry young men w guns, little training, and the right to kill will NOT make us safer. And will crowd out what can.

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Gladwell compares Munich to Phoenix: roughly the same size, but Munich has a much bigger police dept. What if the US just hired more cops? he asks. But just look at budget. Munich's police are state police, and Bavarian State Police are ~5% of the Bavarian budget. Phoenix PD? 20% of Phoenix's!

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HAVE YOU SEEN THE TRAINING DIFFERENTIALS FOR US VS GERMAN POLICE? They're mindblowing! And it isn't just differences in months of training. The time and sort of training will attract a different sort of person! A German cop is not just a US cop with a different accent!

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Minneapolis City government has long seen its residents in the lower 2/3 of the income bracket as problems to be solved. They have spent the last 70 years ripping the guts out of the city and then wonder why nobody shows up.

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