Re:When pop history bombs: a response to Malcolm Gladwell
by specialist on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:41PM
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Just finished Talking to Strangers. That's an unfair ungenerous depiction, by omission. Specifically, the punch line.
Wide spread cargo cult adoption of Kansas City's policing strategy ignored the science, explaining why few reproduced KC's successes, with all sorts of terrible consequences, resulting many senseless deaths, and destroying trust and legitmacy of policing.
Just another tale of bad policy, unintended consequences, railing against entrenched dogma.
In this case, Gladwell's quixotic suggestion is to step back, reassess, try again. Daylighting the science during this cycle of turmoil seems reasonable. Might even help.
Wide spread cargo cult adoption of Kansas City's policing strategy ignored the science, explaining why few reproduced KC's successes, with all sorts of terrible consequences, resulting many senseless deaths, and destroying trust and legitmacy of policing.
Just another tale of bad policy, unintended consequences, railing against entrenched dogma.
In this case, Gladwell's quixotic suggestion is to step back, reassess, try again. Daylighting the science during this cycle of turmoil seems reasonable. Might even help.
What more could he do? What would you do?