In his 2000 bestseller “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell told the story of why crime fell in New York City in the 1990s. Now, 25 years later, he’s back with a confession and a mea culpa: “I was wrong,” he says. He shares how his analysis contributed to the rise of the infamous “stop and frisk” policing policy in New York City — and shows why journalists should avoid the trap of imagining a story is ever really over. (Followed by a Q&A with TED’s Monique Ruff-Bell) (Recorded at TEDNext 2024 on October 22, 2024)
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@Edwordless
October 30, 2024 at 10:20 am
Thanks for revisiting this. However, there are some ongoing flaws with this analysis as well. One mechanism well researched for behavior change is interruption and redirection. That may be part of the explanation for the decline. In addition without some sort of experimental reversal, these anecdotes tell an incomplete story at best, and don’t provide enough control over the variables to make a firm conclusion. Finally, something can dually be effective, like stop and frisk or policing minor crimes, and unethical at the same time. It’s important moving forward to do deeper dives to better understand the mechanisms around the ebb and flow of crime, so that we can better plan and minimize it.
@robertolson7304
October 30, 2024 at 10:25 am
Safer in New york. 😂. Most crimes aren’t reported in the slums. The wages and housing are so bad that they keep the crimes in the slums. Police don’t go into the slums because they see too much crime. You got to pick and choose what you deal with. They system would be overloaded if they document all crimes.
@harrypearle9781
October 30, 2024 at 10:50 am
DUMP TRUMP or TRUMP DUMPS, US!
Perhaps, perhaps, the voters will FLIP over and HARRIS will win, now!
================================================ tnx Malcolm
@ozgoodphotos
October 30, 2024 at 5:16 pm
God help us if she wins. 😢😢😢
@whybegin1285
October 30, 2024 at 10:55 am
If the system boosted you into being famous for academia, then you probably were wrong in your analysis
@whybegin1285
October 30, 2024 at 11:01 am
What is this stupid logic lmao he STILL is convinced the police are the ones stopping crime even after stop and frisk? They are reactors not preventers. The crime statistic doesn’t change based on their presence. Has he ever considered gentrification perhaps? A decline of poverty via relocation of said people leading to less crime?
@Humandriver5280
October 30, 2024 at 11:41 am
Gentrification caused crime to fall.
@ClydsdaleVI
October 30, 2024 at 12:08 pm
Was “stop and frisk” just one of numerous factors in the “broken windows” policing approach? Did the other broken windows policies continue? To what do you attribute the second drop in crime post 2013 and to what do you attribute the more recent spike in crime in NYC over the last number of years?
@eliasnystrom1161
October 30, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Couldn’t the natural experiment point towards stop and frisk simply not making a difference when the crime rate is already low? Does anyone know if the effectiveness of stop and frisk varies based on crime rate? Spontaneously, I would believe that stop and frisk would be effective were the odds of finding a criminal would be high.
@hikerstl
October 30, 2024 at 1:42 pm
Well, he officially asking to be granted back into the ultra liberal world, What a jerk. Has he looked at the crime rates in various cities run by liberal idiots. This is speech is nothing about the facts but his need to be forgiven by left where he circulates.
@homewall744
October 30, 2024 at 2:09 pm
I thought you said it was abortion that lowered crime. And clearly a place that allows lawless behavior encourages more such actions, though to say a broken window causes murder was always absurd and fully unsupported. And stop and frisk increases crime because it increases hatred of the police and government in general.
Liberty is the solution. There’s no “price to pay” to be “safe” when it means more government force and violence. It fell BECAUSE they stopped harassing the people AND because reports of crime went down once the people no longer cared about the police and the police didn’t care about crime.
@MellyBelle
October 30, 2024 at 2:13 pm
The rebuttal that my sister would employ is that the drop in violent crime is an illusion because of the times that various crimes are removed from the category of violent crime when being classified. This is a claim that I could not easily find information on. A researcher who dedicates their work to this subject could investigate this potentially confounding variable and discuss how it fits in the overall picture of crime trends. Otherwise, it remains a reasonable talking point to discredit any conclusions about what interventions are truly effective.
@AThirstyPhilosopher
October 30, 2024 at 2:34 pm
More of this! Id love to see TED be a place for examples of admitting mistakes, apologizing in meaningful ways, reparations, tips to young people on how to think critically and see other perspectives.
@AThirstyPhilosopher
October 30, 2024 at 2:35 pm
More of this! I’d love to see TED be a place for examples of admitting mistakes, apologizing in meaningful ways, reparations, tips to young people on how to think critically and see other perspectives.
@peacepeach6377
October 30, 2024 at 3:16 pm
There was a national shift in the cultural awareness around violent policing practices after Floyd, and I’m sure there are other factors that lead to the drop in violent crime after that point. We can’t point to only one factor and call it the defining one. Many factors come into play to create the outcomes that we had, and attributing the outcomes to one factor while largely igoring the others is a little shortsighted
@BobbbyJoeKlop
October 30, 2024 at 3:27 pm
He’s completely missing the lead–crime hypothesis in his analysis here. Which goes far further in accurately describing the GLOBAL downtrend in crime after the phase out of leaded gasoline throughout the world. Even further, atmospheric lead may also be the reason why the 1960s saw such levels of unrest and social turmoil throughout much of the industrialized world. Lead exposure does incredible damage to the pre-frontal cortex, which is the seat of behavior, cultural norms, and self-control.
@PhoebeFayRuthLouise
October 30, 2024 at 3:51 pm
I appreciate the courage it takes to admit you were wrong and that your mistake had real negative impacts on people. Well done!
@harrypearle9781
October 30, 2024 at 3:52 pm
DUMP TRUMP or TRUMP DUMPS, US !
Try simple ;repeated sayings, rhyming words, etc, MG
Complex arguments only confuse and ANGER voters, turning them to TRUMP!
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@MichelleCarithersAuthor
October 30, 2024 at 5:07 pm
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@KimZhou-x1c
October 30, 2024 at 6:47 pm
” as safe as paris” , the “Paris” of what time? nowadays?🤔
@Matt-dt7cf
October 30, 2024 at 7:52 pm
So what did cause the crime to go down?
@chuckhall5347
October 30, 2024 at 8:13 pm
Stop and frisk was a travesty of justice. Too bad it took so long for the courts to stop it. Lower courts were obviously complict.
@WarrenAbrey
October 30, 2024 at 8:21 pm
I Like Gladwell’s books, and enjoy his podcast, and am comfortable saying that even while admitting he was wrong, his ego shines through claiming credit for why everyone believes something.
@kmacgregor6361
October 30, 2024 at 9:00 pm
I wholeheartedly support the goal of embracing uncertainty in journalism, and I would add equally important in politics. But I also think we need better math and science literacy for everyone. Because this should have been understandable to both the writer and readers: if crime fell everywhere at the same time it fell in New York, then it’s unlikely you can attribute the drop to a change in New York. And if you want to look for the cause of something like that, you need a whole lot more context and data than just one correlation.
@agusbattocarol
October 30, 2024 at 9:08 pm
Great example of human evolution, learning and humbleness.
@nassimsabba8922
October 30, 2024 at 9:13 pm
A highly probable cause of drop in crime may have been abortion rights of mid 70s. A lot less people who couldn’t support their children properly, decided to terminate their earlier pregnancies, including lots of teenagers. People with both parents around don’t act out of innate anger. It doesn’t exist in normally raised people, it is not a miracle, it is our evolution. Parents are needed to raise us.
I wish he had looked at this theory too. It has been around since late 2000s.
Crime fell everywhere in the US right when the youth that would have had been angry and desperate were not born, when they’d be around 24 or 25, which is actually exactly when human brains finalizes the wiring of our “ethics region”, our prefrontal cortical region. But, I imagine that just not being raised by a desperate parent who has no free moment to show love is sufficient to give you a different view of society. Ability to decide if you want or can support a child was national, and so was the resulting drop in number of people who’d have been raised prone to anti-social views. Individual freedom seems to work better than not.
@no_one514
October 30, 2024 at 11:48 pm
11:48am 10-31-24 THUR
@HenggaoCai
October 30, 2024 at 11:59 pm
I hope you guys buy his new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point, in triplicate.
@_anyone5962
October 31, 2024 at 12:31 am
Ya, never take those xx-science theories seriously. Psychology, sociology, economics, political “science” etc are just some very eloquent people talking for a living. I remembered that shortly after Tipping Point, another best selling bull-shxxter said the drop of crime was because of abortion. The mothers killed off future criminals!…. let’s talk about cold-blood and decency.
@seattlegrrlie
October 31, 2024 at 1:09 am
I moved to Seattle in ’99 and everyone thought I was going to get robbed, murdered, raped on the street. It’s been 25yrs and I’ve not had any of those things. Cities are pretty safe if you’re not a tourist stumbling to a hotel at 3am
@AlistairAVogan
October 31, 2024 at 1:18 am
His refutation of his original thesis feels like he is trying to align with critics to avoid discomfort or inject humility into his persona (because this is considered a social value). While perhaps there is merit in arguing that his thesis is too reductive, it doesn’t mean that there is no power in it. The original framework (social epidemics/‘broken window phenomenon’) and the resulting actions that were engaged in and which also support his thesis may still have set in motion the social change that was documented. If you put all your effort into getting an object in motion and the object continues to move after you stop pushing it, you wouldn’t say that that because the object sustains its momentum the method you used was ineffective…
@AlistairAVogan
October 31, 2024 at 1:52 am
As non-hedge fund viewers and/or non-successful hedge fund viewers, it is OFTEN pleasurable to have the opportunity to feel superior to these imagined wealthy and successful people who engage in practices I only have a rudimentary understanding of. It is also uplifting to consider these members of the 5% engaging in the buffoonery of navigating the world with out-of-date internalizations. (Boy they are dumb.) But wait. I feel like I’m bonding with a celebrity who has embraced in a ritual of public self-deprecation and come out ‘the other side’. We’re all too comfortable with ourselves: Now he’s back on top. Now he’s got us ready to listen again – because ‘we’ve’ engaged our critical ractulties. “We’re not naive,” “We’re intelligent and responsible,”we tell ourselves… (Yes. We have rules and takeaways in this ritual too, don’t we?) But this phenomenon of ‘internalization’ that Malcolm Gladwell invokes to bring us to his side might be equally applicable to those influential elements that produced positive change in NYC. A thought. Why doesn’t he explore this, rather that nominally deconstruct and refute his own argument, rather than go off track and stroke our egos? … because it’s not about the truth, or getting the facts or arguments right. It’s about how we FEEL about Malcolm Gladwell. So we can keep respecting ourselves, while we read this books. Why don’t we act like adults? We don’t need others to tell us they might be wrong. We need to consider the arguments and the facts, think critically, and reach our own decisions, rather than contract out to others to communicate to us that their position may be fragile. Truth and integrity of argument should be values in society, but the extent of your expressed humility and self deprecation should not be factored into our consideration of the strength or weakness of an argument. It feels here like we’re at risk of conflating humility with truth. I hope this isn’t the new entertainment spectacle. It would be the beginning of a downward spiral.
@AlistairAVogan
October 31, 2024 at 2:06 am
Before: “I thought that if you wanted to win over an audience, you had to communicate certainty.” Now:”… You’re more capable of winning over an audience when you admit to the uncertainty and fragility of your position. People want that. They like that.” I really enjoy reading his books and listening to Revisionist History. But I’d suggest reading this again not for what you want to hear – but for what is there.
@petesyoutube
October 31, 2024 at 2:35 am
What level of gentrification occurred during that time frame though? Maybe particular demographics were squeezed out of particular areas?
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
October 31, 2024 at 5:58 am
grande
@sls6056
October 31, 2024 at 6:03 am
i love this video
@stevie-p228
October 31, 2024 at 8:54 am
Yeah but the theory was unscientific in the first place. Have there been conrolled trials? It was the opinion of one person with hindsight and sample size of 1.
@lm_b5080
October 31, 2024 at 8:57 am
this guy has always had a very restricted worldview with lots of blindspots
@crystalhutchison8546
October 31, 2024 at 9:50 am
I hope fake news and social media who push agenas for their own self gain look back to realize they are no different.
@leehansen5527
October 31, 2024 at 12:19 pm
Why was Malcom’s certainty 25 years ago acceptable? Why is the type of acedemic certainty he applied back then still such a norm? I was very turned off to acedamia in general as a young human. For example I stopped reading Malcom’s books, among others, due to the level of certainty he and those others in acedamia convey in their work. I am 9 years his junior, uneducated, and frankly no where near as intelligent. I sincerley beleive I have one advantage though. I have rarely, if ever, viewed the world through a lens of certainty. There is very little truth available to beings whose perceptions are as limited as ours. Let us discuss, argue, contemplate, make decisions, advance, but can we do so knowing we do not know? Can we do so with an inherent bent toward the reflective nature exemplified here by an older, more mature acedemic? An example I would add that appears to be an exception among his peers, and by extension an exception in our larger society.
Why is acedemic certainty in communicating any information not more “I believe” than “I know”. Perhaps managing societal fear is one reason, but in most cases the conveyance of information and managing the fear of a society do not overlap. I guess that leaves the management of the personal fears of the one conveying. As he said, he was very scared living in New York. I wonder how much effect his book had on normalizing broken windows to other fear riddled folks. It seems so obvious stop and frisk is an over reach. It was always hard for me to believe it even came to pass and then had to become a discussion to filter it out of other forms of “intelligent and thoughtful and selective application of police authority”. Grow up. “Dance the wild dance of no hope” (Jennifer Weldwood). Come down from the ivory, or depart from your prison, or perhaps just get out, and face fear. Join the human race in knowing we do not know.
@RussellFineArt
October 31, 2024 at 1:20 pm
Funny how a non-stereotypical white/orange wealthy man with a long red tie-business suit in New York City during the ’90’s and 2000’s, was a serial criminal who was stealing MILLIONS of dollars, lying his butt off and never got stopped and frisked, one time.
@ravibalaji863
October 31, 2024 at 1:42 pm
I was expecting he will say why it dropped after the stop of stop and frisk?
What if the drop is because of fake cases stopped? What if the actual crime has gone up?
Will it help to compare records of convicted crimes
@Big_Island_Boi
October 31, 2024 at 3:13 pm
Meh. First of all, it’s quite narcissistic to assume that some book you wrote–one of millions of books–somehow has something to do with the implementation of “stop & frisk” policing. It didn’t. And second, correlation is not causation. And the impacts of this or that policy (such as stop & frisk) are rarely if ever immediate. So… the drop in NY crime (if that’s even real… anyone that has taken even just a basic Statistics class knows that data is easily manipulated to say whatever it is you want it to say) COULD actually be the result of stop & frisk policing… a delayed result… and in much the same fashion, stopping the practice may result in a future increase in crime. (Oh, and if you don’t the police manipulate crime data to skew the results and make themselves look better–just google “city of Houston police department scandal” and read about how the police department there used a simple “lack of personnel” code to basically “disappear” police reports and crimes–for YEARS–including rapes–which made it look like (a) there was LESS crime than there actually was and (b) that the police had a higher closure / solve rate than they actually did. (They basically “closed” over 250,000 cases without actually solving or investigating them.)) I have no doubt in my mind that the New York police have done similar things to improve their stats–as have many other departments around the country. Oh, and in the Houston, currently, the government CLAIMS that crime is down… but the nightly news is filled with violent crimes, murders, road rage incidents, robberies, etc. So, it certainly FEELS as bad or worse there than it ever has. Don’t believe the hype.
@tintingengen5601
October 31, 2024 at 4:05 pm
This is total bullshit. He’s actually using his previous mistake, which, yes, he realises he has made, but he is using it as a prop or vehicle to suggest he now knows. He is actually again as certain now as he was back then. He does not appear to have really worked out how certainty counts for nothing as it is only an emotion. And he is using the same TED talk processes to do it. It is flagrant ignorance being sold as wisdom.
@artchesterfitzsimmonsiii4245
October 31, 2024 at 7:15 pm
“NYC is as safe as Paris” Paris isnt safe at all
@tonyhill2318
October 31, 2024 at 8:49 pm
The primary cause of the crime drop was roe v. Wade, as researched by Steven Levitt et al. It’s an uncomfortable explanation, but it is also the correct one. I would have hoped Malcolm would’ve gotten around to telling everyone the actual primary cause.
@ash22ps
November 1, 2024 at 1:57 am
Major felony offences in NYC have gone up from 136,000 in 2020 to 188,000 in 2023. Why?
@rogerc23
November 1, 2024 at 2:47 am
“i wasn’t scared anymore” because a replicant mayor called Americas mayor cleaned it up.
@lancefron1
November 1, 2024 at 3:27 am
I understand accepting partial guilt if your words are accepted as the absolute truth. But Gladwell’s work is by definition ‘opinion pieces’ – very insightful, but not based on self-collected research data, which in itself should be prefaced with: ‘this is true now.’
@heidelbergaren5054
November 1, 2024 at 4:26 am
I have so missed intelligent people conversing in meaningful ways
@intelligentcomputing
November 1, 2024 at 5:03 am
Could part of this reduction in crime be the ripple effect of 9/11? Causing the collective conscious to be more sympathetic / more compassionate or at least less inclined to cause psychological trauma because they got a massive dose of it themselves in 2001?
@neerajkyajnik8308
November 1, 2024 at 5:43 am
Fantastic! I admire his integrity. When was this?
@DrSerendip
November 1, 2024 at 5:59 am
This discussion and question period can be applied to a number of disciplines. I applaud Malcolm Gladwell’s willingness to own up to his error or limited view at the time of writing The Tipping Point. If only other people in positions of leadership would be so honest. I am reminded of a podcast in Pitch Fork Economics with MIT economist Anna Stansbury who did a study of economic diversity in the economics profession. Sometimes our own position, where we find ourselves at a point in time and place or our background and life experience influences the questions we ask and therefore the answers we generate.
@DwayneDavson
November 1, 2024 at 7:19 am
Funny, when he started discussing NY in 1993 and how unsafe it was, i could not relate as living in Brooklyn during that time did not seem as unsafe. It he was talking about the 80’s i can understand. Great work here nonetheless. A salute you sir for acknowledging your error.
@kristinchong629
November 1, 2024 at 7:26 am
Dink cracked out on crapola from China like do u even believe people can green tech. Like what’s the data on those pathways but sure your hair and Colin Powell kamala vibez.
Dank like read a book oh look reading to pink gulag.
@msmci5854
November 1, 2024 at 7:48 am
I am wishing, though, that we didn’t throw out the elusive, but still objective, truth, every time we recorrect ourselves. The answer is to keep searching for better answers, better policies that are still there. Maybe final answers don’t exist so much dealing with complex social problems, but definitely, the truth, the answer is more attainable with other problems, like global warming. Humanity is forcing our home conditions to become worse for our ability to survive. We can’t give up on finding our answers, especial when we have to, because that means giving up on civilized human existance, maybe existance all together. We can never give up on studying, trying new policy, and solving our problems.
@math4wisdom
November 1, 2024 at 8:43 am
Malcolm, I learned good ideas from your book “The Tipping Point”. I’m glad you share your new understanding. I am most struck, though, by how stridently you conclude that nobody can write a book for the ages. You leap from lesser to greater arrogance! You don’t think Jesus can speak for the ages? Or anybody else? Who are you to keep us from trying to do what you failed to do? Why do you think you are qualified to judge yourself? let alone others?
@gfxpimp
November 2, 2024 at 2:45 am
Someone was once quoted, in a book “written for the ages” that you should love your neighbor as yourself. After centuries of further thought and cross-cultural exchange, it has become clear that what one would prefer for one’s self is often not what is best assumed for others. The idea that anyone can get it right in all contexts for all of time is ludicrous.
@math4wisdom
November 2, 2024 at 12:32 pm
@@gfxpimpAs regards the ludicrous, I think that there are those who are willing to be ludicrous. I myself don’t see the merit of those who wouldn’t be ludicrous, as I suppose they are centered on what others think about them, rather than on their own integrity. As regards “love your neighbor as yourself”, and how to interpret that, I suppose it is related. I myself would rather be loved by an authentic boor than a manipulator. Which stance keeps us open to truth and life?
@gfxpimp
November 2, 2024 at 12:43 pm
@@math4wisdom There are many people who think that the best thing they can do for themselves and others is to go to heaven as soon as possible.
@math4wisdom
November 2, 2024 at 4:32 pm
@@gfxpimp Well, the sooner they act on that – preferably as children – the sooner we can respond and address that.
@mdecav
November 1, 2024 at 9:57 am
Wasn’t broken windows mainly about being aggressive with arresting people who were doing petty crimes?
@burtgallagher6499
November 1, 2024 at 11:09 am
Malcolm Gladwell is wrongheaded. No respect, does not deserve the platform, he’s abused too many opportunities with lazy arguments and lies.
@roudys
November 1, 2024 at 11:43 am
Malcolm Gladwell is Canadian. We apologize all the time. One might say we’re known for it. I’m sorry if that’s too in your face….
@njp1539
November 3, 2024 at 2:39 pm
I am French Canadian living in the US… I do this, apologise a lot, I wonder why that is…
@writeorrun
November 1, 2024 at 11:48 am
I also appreciate that the moderator asked Malcolm about the undue and disproportionate burden on Black people during stop and frisk. He said the policy was the lesser of two evils, but I believe that came from his white POV. Had they asked the victims and families of this policy, most of whom were black and other minorities, I’m not certain they would have agreed it was better than getting killed. Maybe some would have preferred the risk over living with the stress the moderator described.
@claudecyr8502
November 1, 2024 at 12:13 pm
Levitt and Dubner studied the drop in crime in NY in the ’90s and it was almost entirely attributed to the legalisation of abortion following Roe v. Wade in the ’70s. This makes a lot of sense. Policing only explain between 10 and 20%.
@toddashton9696
November 1, 2024 at 12:24 pm
Correlation does not imply causation.
Great talk Malcolm. I appreciate your reflecting thoughts on the Tipping Point.
@PenandInk2012
November 1, 2024 at 1:34 pm
I have always liked Gladwell, but this…this admission of a mistake so honest and open…this is the way. We need way more of this honest discourse in society.
@theresabalistreri2201
November 1, 2024 at 1:40 pm
I don’t think stop and frisk was the only aspect of broken windows that mattered. This seems less nuanced that most of his other work, like he was looking for a conclusion.
@Dr.Ranger
November 1, 2024 at 1:44 pm
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@aaabbb-ff1sp
November 1, 2024 at 2:23 pm
now expand this realization to your assumptions of the rest of the world
@stephanurkel7567
November 1, 2024 at 3:21 pm
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” No one ever thinks police will reinforce a policy based on text from a book, or that parents of kids everywhere will start chronicling how long a child is doing a chosen vocation to make sure they hit their 10,000 hours. But this, this talk, is more than accountability… it’s journalistic integrity. Which the world can use more of. Thank you Malcolm
@stanleykubrick8786
November 1, 2024 at 4:23 pm
Heraclitus, Malcolm. Now go and write a book; keep promoting yourself.
@emthority
November 1, 2024 at 5:26 pm
How does this guy not know that poverty drives everything? It’s only because Manhattan has become richer and richer that crime has gone down.
@ericlodgins3678
November 1, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Not buying it.
Maybe broken windows was the impetus for setting a social norm.
For example, would smoking in restaurants return if it couldn’t be enforced.
I don’t think so.
Social norms are powerful.
@georgenaugles5039
November 1, 2024 at 10:54 pm
❤violent crime in Miami,Trump’s RED GOP MAGA home state of Florida is twice what it is in NYC!♥️
@gfxpimp
November 2, 2024 at 2:48 am
Malcolm should really write a book called “What I got wrong”. I’ve read almost all of his books. I find them engrossing. But I think he gets many things wrong. This TED talk increases my respect for him. He should do more like this.
@kurisensei
November 3, 2024 at 7:25 pm
He did a podcast after his disastrous debate with Douglas Murray. But he was wrong about what he said he got wrong in the podcast
@1GoodWoman
November 2, 2024 at 12:25 pm
Keep learning…paranoia is not required.
@johnbollenbacher6715
November 2, 2024 at 12:53 pm
The broken windows theory doesn’t say that the more dramatic end draconian the policing the better. That was our misinterpretation.
The theory implies that if the police treat the world with respect that citizens will also.
@bertiballermann5812
November 3, 2024 at 7:01 am
Just another useful commie trying to twist our heads by explaining that law and order is not right – thus further trying to confuse our societies so that the real commies will have an easier job taking over later.
@charlottelinlin5016
November 3, 2024 at 7:04 am
The book freakonomics insight that the obvious cause is abortion by reducing unwanted children.
@PavelHenkin
November 3, 2024 at 9:51 am
This is a misunderstanding – I guess it’s a misunderstanding by the ny police. A broken window signifies to a resident ‘you don’t have to follow the law, as others around you don’t’. Racist harassment of young men is a very different and misguided attempt to address this. The broken window thing is definitely real.
@craigg5051
November 3, 2024 at 10:15 am
“I believe what happened now,” well said. Broken windows was one of many things happening, not the only thing. There a very few absolutes. Good talk
@shanehannon8987
November 3, 2024 at 10:29 am
Fact checked his statement about the bronx being safer than coral gables. I used the same website and compared the 2 cities. In coral gables, Violent crimes per 1000 residents annually was less than 1 and property crime was about 21. Same stats for the bronx was 11 and 32. This guys bs is just another example of the brainwashed wokeness of the left. Smh
@Winstonsmom
November 3, 2024 at 10:33 am
One of my greatest fears in this upcoming election, is that the voices of thinkers like Malcolm Gladwell will be largely silenced. This will break my heart.
@olwethusilo7155
November 3, 2024 at 3:42 pm
Well done Malcolm! This was a great listen – Dave Chang (on his podcast) asked food critics to do something like this to review their reviews years later & reflect on their thought process. Any form of criticism benefits from this.
@bert3163
November 3, 2024 at 4:19 pm
I will humbly admit that Malcolm Gladwell was the catalyst to my adoption of reading as a pastime. Somewhere between high school and grad school, I’d come to see it as a chore and a pastime of the cultural elites. Thanks, Malcolm, for making it fun again.
@MichaelGilboe
November 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm
I commend him for admitting he was wrong about a major issue he was a part of. People learn. People change their minds. Circumstances change. And far too many people hold on to an old position without ever rethinking it. More people should do this.
@Estigy
November 4, 2024 at 1:57 am
Maybe Police stop-and-frisk’ing innocent people was not a prevention of a “broken window” but a “broken window” itself. Thus removing this practice would actually decrease crime. 😉
@doubtleadstotruth
November 4, 2024 at 5:03 am
Grand theories are always dangerous. Using linier mechanistic reasoning to so explain complex systematic problems is addictive and alluring. BE carful of those who provide simple one liner solutions for extraordinarily complex problems, it creates externalities.
@doubtleadstotruth
November 4, 2024 at 6:57 am
The other thing is, wen people are scared they tend to observe patterns and causality where no such thing exist.
@kimsnyder5456
November 4, 2024 at 6:02 am
Being able to see we had it wrong and being able to admit accountability… these are tools we all need for society to grow. Thank you.
@jerryjohnson6399
November 4, 2024 at 9:39 am
How’s the city now?
@theapm33
November 4, 2024 at 12:43 pm
Coral Gables is not the same as Miami & is significantly safer than the Bronx. But of course, Malcolm loves to over-generalize.
@Tony818L
November 4, 2024 at 1:42 pm
I love that someone who is respectful and intelligent as him is going out of his way to say he was wrong! I hope we can all have this level of humility and self understanding.
@sabinafunk4371
November 4, 2024 at 3:39 pm
Malcom is wrong about being wrong. Broken window theory is just about signalling that nothing is being done about aberrant behaviour, such as crime. It signals that no one cares. ‘Stop and frisk’ might have been one solution the police force introduced in New York city to signal they cared and were serious about stopping crime. Perhaps this worked at the time but things change and adapt. Perhaps now there are other mechanisms in place to help this ‘broken window theory’ signalling problem. That doesn’t mean ‘Broken window theory’ is incorrect; just might mean there are other ways its being addressed now. Think its important to note that Broken Window Theory is a very important concept that has been well tested and can be valuable to numerous cities and countries today which suffer from such a problem – small, negative signs add up!
@AliciaMarkoe
November 4, 2024 at 6:49 pm
Thank you 🦋