Malcolm Gladwell on 'When Police Kill'
Over the years, author, journalist and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell has written about some notorious cases of police brutality, including the deaths of\xa0Amadou Diallo, the African immigrant who was shot 41 times by New York police officers when he reached for his wallet to show them his ID, and\xa0Sandra Bland,\xa0the black woman who died in a jail cell after being arrested for a routine traffic violation. Gladwell is famous for mining behavioral science for his work \u2014 including his books "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers," and his podcast "Revisionist History" \u2014 and when it comes to understanding the intersection of crime, violence, and policing, he turns again and again to criminologist Frank Zimring.
\n\nA law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Zimring has had a long academic career examining policing, gun violence, crime rates, and the social factors that interact with each of them. In 2017, he published a book called "When Police Kill," one that Gladwell believes is especially important to read as\xa0the police killing of George Floyd\xa0sparks debates about defunding police departments.
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