What Malcolm Gladwell has said about Baltimore violence reduction strategy
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 7, 2026
Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Outliers, whose theory about Chinese numerals Jiang disputes, has been quoted on Baltimore violence reduction strategy once in 1 episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, most recently on October 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Gladwell reports, citing Mayor Brandon Scott, that Baltimore cut annual arrests from about 100,000 to 17,000 while homicides fell from 350 to under 100.
“have gone from 100,000 to 17,000, and their murder rate has dropped from 350 to under 100”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 58:12
Episodes
Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun CrisisNext Question with Katie Couric · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Katie Couric talks with Malcolm Gladwell about his book The American Way of Killing, covering under-policing, prisons, the Second Amendment, assault weapons bans and gun suicide.
Malcolm Gladwell on other topics
- Police staffing in the United States · 4 quotes
- Gun violence in the United States · 3 quotes
- Firearm suicide · 2 quotes
- Assault weapons ban · 2 quotes
- Incarceration in the United States · 2 quotes
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution · 2 quotes
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen · 1 quote
- Stop-and-frisk in New York City · 1 quote