Blue : the LAPD and the battle to redeem American policing / Joe Domanick.
Domanick, Joe, author.
2015
HV8148.L7 D657 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Blue : the LAPD and the battle to redeem American policing / Joe Domanick.
Author Domanick, Joe, author.
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781451641073 hardcover
1451641079 hardcover
9781451641110 electronic book
Published New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Language English
Description xix, 437 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number HV8148.L7 D657 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.209794/94
Summary American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-428) and index.
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