Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by Malcolm Gladwell · 1 Oct 2024 · 283pp · 85,644 words
late 1980s and early 1990s makes perfect sense—except for one thing. There’s a puzzle. 4. In the early morning of March 9, 1950, Willie Sutton rose and applied a heavy coat of makeup to his face. The previous evening he had dyed his hair several shades lighter, so that he
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he put on a gray suit, tailored and padded in such a way as to alter his silhouette. Satisfied that he no longer looked like Willie Sutton, Willie Sutton left his house in Staten Island for Sunnyside, Queens, heading to a Manufacturers Trust Company branch at 44th Street and Queens Boulevard in New York
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money they had one of the walls completely painted. Sutton was terrifyingly charming. Did the employees of the Manufacturers Trust Company realize that the famous Willie Sutton was robbing them that morning? Undoubtedly. They filed into the conference room, one by one. “Don’t worry, folks,” he told them. “It’s only
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vault, ambled out the door to a waiting getaway car, and vanished into the New York City traffic. Willie Sutton was the New York version of Casper—although that doesn’t quite do Willie Sutton justice. Nobody knew much about Casper at the time he was orchestrating his bank-robbery spree. Even his trial
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barely made a dent in the news. Not so Willie Sutton. Sutton was famous. He dated starlets. He was a master of disguise. He made not one but two daring escapes from prison. He was once
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he claimed to have stolen more than $20 million over the course of his career. Casper wasn’t even in the same tax bracket as Willie Sutton (assuming, of course, that they paid taxes, which neither of them did). The point is that if anyone were to start a bank-robbery epidemic
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, you’d think it would be Willie Sutton. You would think that the impressionable criminal classes of New York City would look at “Slick Willie” effortlessly slipping into bank branches without firing a
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who kicks off an epidemic. (We’re going to talk about one of the most fascinating index cases in recent history later in this book.) Willie Sutton should have been the index case, right? He turned the grubby job of holding up a bank into a work of art. But
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Willie Sutton did not start a bank-robbery epidemic in New York City—not in the 1940s and ’50s, in his heyday, nor in the years afterward,
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a card with a photo on it: “They call it the face card. Now when I say I’m Willie Sutton, people believe me.” Did that make the world want to be Willie Sutton? Apparently not. In the days of Casper, New York City suffered only a fraction of the bank robberies that Los
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Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The number of branches across the country jumped from 21,839 in 1970 to 63,631 in 1999. You can read about Willie Sutton’s “visit” to the Manufacturers Trust Company branch in Queens, as well as other details about his life, in his 2004 memoir, cowritten with Edward
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.nydailynews.com/2016/02/18/the-day-willie-the-actor-sutton-prolific-bank-robber-was-arrested-in-brooklyn-in-1952/ In his 1953 memoir, I, Willie Sutton: The Personal Story of the Most Daring Bank Robber and Jail Breaker of Our Time (written with Quentin Reynolds), Sutton claimed to have stolen $2
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words
the seventeenth century because the man who ran its police force launched a vast street-lighting project to make the city less dangerous at night. Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is,” but in most cases, crime means poor people robbing other poor people. Crime victims
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of Urban Growth, 534. 106 vast street-lighting project: Schivelbusch, “Policing of Street Lighting.” 106 “where the money is”: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Famous Cases, “Willie Sutton.” 106 more than 20 percent of people ... people were victims: Glaeser, “Are Cities Dying?” and Glaeser and Sacerdote, “Why Is There More Crime in Cities
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. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Crime in the United States, 2008, Sept. 2009, www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/index.html. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Famous Cases. “Willie Sutton,” www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/sutton/sutton.htm. Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th ed. New
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words
be driving toward zero, the social costs may be much higher, posing huge future liabilities for society and our world. History here can be instructive. Willie Sutton, the famous American bank robber, stole nearly $2 million over his multi-decade career in crime, which began in the 1920s. After his capture by
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as well. When firms such as Acxiom store trillions of records on each of us, those records will be targeted by organized crime because, as Willie Sutton reminds us, that’s where the money is. This theft of large-scale data sets from data brokers has been going on for many years
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criminals to target everybody’s hard drive individually and instead put all the jewels in a single place for criminals and hackers to target—think Willie Sutton and his love of banks. The cloud is here to stay, and at this point there is no going back. In early 2014, Google decreased
The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines
by William Davidow and Michael Malone · 18 Feb 2020 · 304pp · 80,143 words
/Cultural_lag (accessed June 26, 2019). 55. Ogburn, On Culture and Social Change, 86. 56. Ibid., 61. Chapter Three SUBSTITUTIONAL EQUIVALENCES 1. “Willie Sutton,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton (accessed June 26, 2019). 2. Ibid. 3. Dancho Danchev, “New ZeuS Source Code Based Rootkit Available for Purchase on the Underground Market
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by Zeke Faux · 11 Sep 2023 · 385pp · 106,848 words
been a barrier to fame and fortune, and where large-scale hacks are a regular occurrence. Asked why he robbed banks, the famed bank robber Willie Sutton supposedly said, “Because that’s where the money is.” But these days, with the rise in electronic payments, the average branch might hold as little
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Pollute the Internet,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 27, 2018. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT famed bank robber: Willie Sutton said the quote was invented by a reporter and that he robbed banks because it was thrilling. Willie Sutton, Willie and Edward Linn, Where the Money Was (New York: Viking, 1976), 120. GO TO NOTE
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words
Navigator and Internet Explorer made their way onto PCs, and the world’s infatuation with the web grew, so did the NSA’s. “Why did Willie Sutton rob banks?” Gosler would repeatedly ask his bosses and underlings at the intel agencies. “Because that’s where the money is!” There was still money
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
lump of food. It is the interpersonal equivalent of Clausewitz’s dictum that war is merely the continuation of policy by other means. It is Willie Sutton’s answer to the question of why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” It lies beneath the advice of a farmer
Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
by James Donovan
who he was. He once told me he had enjoyed reading the autobiography of bank robber Willie Sutton, a celebrated fugitive who had suffered nightmares in which hundreds of people pointed at him and screamed, “You’re Willie Sutton.” Abel explained that any undercover fugitive must constantly fight against the feeling that the whole
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the guards were looking east, you might go down a newly designed laundry chute and out into the west. Does the warden know you read Willie Sutton’s book?” “Yes, but he also knows I’ll not make my break until you successfully argue your appeal,” said Abel, smiling. The appeal, of
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover · 20 Jan 2010 · 418pp · 133,703 words
straw mattresses atop iron bed frames attached to the wall. (One hundred years after its construction, the original cellblock was still in use. Bank robber Willie Sutton wrote that in 1926, it “had uneven jagged stone walls that sweated moisture all day and all night.”) Inmates ate with their fingers; food was
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Committee [to examine prisons] of the [New York State] Assembly of 1851 … transmitted to the legislature, Jan. 7, 1852, p. 26. Bank robber Willie Sutton: Willie Sutton, with Quentin Reynolds. I, Willie Sutton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, p. 92. There are daily: Levi S. Burr, A Voice From Sing Sing, giving a general
A Fine Mess
by T. R. Reid · 13 Mar 2017 · 363pp · 92,422 words
year—essentially nothing!” Professor Collet explained. “But if any government were to drop it, you’re sure to lose the next election.” This is a Willie Sutton approach. Sutton, a Depression-era crook, was asked why he kept robbing banks and famously answered, “Because that’s where the money is.” Still, this
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