Title
To protect and serve : how to fix America's police / Norm Stamper.
ISBN
9781568585406 (hardcover)
1568585403 (hardcover)
9781568585413 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Nation Books, [2016]
Language
English
Description
xx, 309 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HV8139 .S675 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.20973
Summary
"Policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities. Racism-from raw, individualized versions to insidious systemic examples-appears to be on the rise in our police departments. Overall, our police officers have grown more and more alienated from the people they've been hired to serve. In To Protect and To Serve, Norm Stamper offers new insights into the conditions that have created this crisis, reminding us that police in a democratic society belong to the people-and not the other way around. To Protect and To Serve also delivers a revolutionary new model for American law enforcement: the community-based police department. It calls for citizen participation in all aspects of police operations: policymaking, program development, crime fighting and service delivery, entry-level and ongoing education and training, oversight of police conduct, and, especially relevant to today's challenges, joint community-police crisis management. Nothing will ever change until the system itself is radically restructured, and here Norm Stamper shows us how"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index.
Preface
From Ferguson to New York
Doomed from the start
Save money, save lives: end the drug war
Cops and mental illness
A scared cop is a dangerous cop
The rise of police militarism
Tools of the trade: use and abuse
The talk
We're the cops and you're not
Flex your rights
Policing the police
The community as DMZ
Compassionate cops
Activists and cops: partnering to control protests
Community policing?
Strength in numbers
Fixing America's police: more big government, please!
Acknowledgments
Notes
Further reading
Index.
