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Hot take: Malcolm Gladwell is not a scientist and none of his books should be looked at as anything more than “oh this random person had a vague interest in something, but didn’t follow it through”

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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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This is Gladwell’s MO. Take an inane stand in the guise of being counterintuitive, sell a magazine piece or a book based around it, and make sure the checks clear before people realize it’s just a dumb idea.

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Take the LA Metro on any random day and you’ll see a half-dozen LAPD cops standing around by the entrance on their phones collecting overtime and doing absolutely nothing.

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