The tipping point I got wrong | Malcolm Gladwell

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

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)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.8	25 years ago, author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell published The Tipping Point,
0:21.8	which went on to become a bestseller and one chapter in
0:24.3	particular changed the way policy makers thought about crime. At Ted Next
0:29.3	2024 Gladwell revisits that breakout book and reflects on what he do differently.
0:35.0	Stick around after his talk for a Q&A with Ted's Monique Ruff Bell.
0:40.0	It's all coming up after a break.
0:44.0	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
0:47.0	I want to tell you a story about when I moved to New York City in 1993.
0:52.0	I was 30 years old and I was moving to what was known as one of the most dangerous big cities in the United States.
1:01.0	And every night I would go up my friends on a Friday or Saturday night.
1:04.0	And at the end of every night we would have a little conference and we would pool all of our money
1:09.0	and we would figure out how everyone was going to get home because you couldn't go home on the
1:13.6	subway by yourself and you could walk home and if you were a woman you could
1:17.2	definitely were not allowed to go home by yourself at one o'clock in the morning on a
1:21.0	Saturday night that's what it meant to be in this very scary city called New York.
1:26.9	I used to live on a sixth floor of a walk up in the West Village
1:31.5	and my bedroom faced the fire escape.
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