“In fact there’s a brilliant study that was done by these two guys at Harvard, who are the furthest thing from conservatives—they’re in fact self-identified socialists. And they make this argument that, around the world, levels of police brutality are highest in places where police are fewest. . . A fundamental insight that made me really rethink a lot of what I thought about crime.”
[In addition to this point being entirely unsubstantiated and factually untrue, Gladwell attempts to explain the false claim with contrarian guesswork, again with no evidence supporting it, about how when there are more cops, perhaps police don’t need to use as much brutality and violence and so are nicer.]
More info: https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-everyone-lying
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