Seven Ways To Fix Policing Now

Author : Kathleen O'Toole
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538168715
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW written by Kathleen O'Toole and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide to policing reform presents a call to action to address a threefold crisis in policing – a catastrophic loss of trust between police and the communities they serve; a sharp increase in violent crime after decades of decline; and a serious recruitment and retention challenge depleting police departments across the United States. The authors also recognize that, while these issues are now top of mind, policing needs far-reaching reform in order to respond to changes in society and its expectations, changes in crime and other threats to public safety, new technologies, and developments in best practice. Most reform to date has been piecemeal, as the book describes. The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing.

Author : Alex S. Vitale
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784782904
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Policing written by Alex S. Vitale and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.

Author : Jonathon A. Cooper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793647577
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing written by Jonathon A. Cooper and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring events in policing since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in 2014. More than summarizing historical events, Cooper contextualizes the subsequent riots in light of classic sociological theory and political philosophy, and offers a potential and compelling new direction for improving both police use of force and the relationship between police and communities.

Author : Mark Kilgallon
Publisher : Critical Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1915080541
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership Behaviours for Effective Policing written by Mark Kilgallon and published by Critical Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential handbook of policing leadership behavioural skills for both professional police officers and policing students aspiring to join the force. The behaviours examined are of relevance to all ranks and roles, from a newly appointed police constable to an executive officer. Behavioural soft skills are essential to effective policing practice and professional development, and are particularly significant in leadership and management roles. This handbook examines the key leadership behaviours and focuses on discreet aspects within policing as well as describing a career timeline. In addition it provides a unique opportunity for leaders to articulate the effects the Covid-19 pandemic has had on law enforcement, examining the impact on policing behaviours and what the blockages are. Each chapter is written by a well-established serving police leader or policing scholar, bringing together a wealth of experience and understanding and applying this knowledge in context through key case studies and examples. It bridges the gap between theory and practice so readers can apply what they have learnt to their policing roles and effectively formulate and describe their own leadership philosophy and style. This is a companion book to Behavioural Skills for Effective Policing.

Author : Jeff Pegues
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633882578
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black and Blue written by Jeff Pegues and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues "presents an objective overview of the challenges confronting law enforcement as it attempts to reform in the wake of the unrest sparked by the police shootings in Ferguson and other communities"--

Author : Deuchar, Ross
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529210615
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police–Community Relations in Times of Crisis written by Deuchar, Ross and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd at the hands of white police officers uncovered an apparent legitimacy crisis at the heart of American policing. Drawing on interviews with officers, offenders, practitioners and community members, this book explores policing changes in the ‘post-Ferguson’ era and informs future policing practice.

Author : James D. Ward
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498550924
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing and Race in America written by James D. Ward and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups’ daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the Detroit, Los Angeles, and Atlanta Police Departments, immigration, incarceration, community policing, police violence, and detail causes, theories, and solutions to this important phenomenon.

Author : Norm Stamper
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585411
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Protect and Serve written by Norm Stamper and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police in America belong to the people -- not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege -- misunderstood, unfairly criticized, and scapegoated for society's ills. Is there a fix? Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper believes there is. Policing is in crisis. The last decade has witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. It is not just noticeable in African American and other minority communities -- where there have been a series of high-profile tragedies -- but in towns and cities across the country. 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 Serve, Stamper delivers a revolutionary new model for American law enforcement: the community-based police department. It calls for fundamental changes in the federal government's role in local policing as well as 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 Stamper shows us how.

Author : Laurence Ralph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672980X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Torture Letters written by Laurence Ralph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.

Author : James W. Buie (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Ground Up written by James W. Buie (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this true how to fix it book, you will get a collection of relevant, thought-provoking, and influential solutions-based ideas and concepts. The focus is on taking the steps needed to effectively ensure that our American law enforcement system meets the needs of society today. In addition to identifying the number one problem faced by police in the US, From the Ground Up also examines the number one problem facing the American public. For the police, it means a loss of credibility, whereas for the American people, it means unmet expectations and the terror of being victimized. The insight offered builds an understanding of today's Policing in America, which has had a difficult time adapting to the modern world. This is partly to blame for the lack of trust and belief that police will advance their methodologies to meet the standards of societal needs today. The author, therefore, takes a unique approach to address this critical challenge we see on display daily. As a result, the book is more than thought-provoking. It leads all of its readers to wonder why something like it has not already been done. Additionally, this book reinforces social action through a review and ensuing application of its contents, marking a significant step forward in solving America's systemic problems in one of its government departments. It is suggested within this book that the universal standards should not remove the identities and individuality of each city/county's police departments. Each police department should maintain its accountability while fulfilling the needs of its community.--