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Tangled up in blue policing the American city

"Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing" -- Amazon.com.

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Main Author:	Brooks, Rosa (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Police > Washington (D.C.) Law enforcement > Washington (D.C.) Criminal justice, Administration of > Washington (D.C.)
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Summary:	"Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing" -- Amazon.com. "A radical inside examination of policing in modern America, from a Georgetown University law professor turned reserve police officer" -- In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, Brooks applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. In the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, Brooks found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested. In a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, she argues that a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description:	367 pages : 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-367).
ISBN:	9780525557852 0525557857
Author Notes:	Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program. From 2016 to 2020, she served as a reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. She has worked previously at the Defense Department, the State Department, and for several international human rights organizations. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Atlantic , and The Wall Street Journal , and she spent four years as a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and another four as a columnist for Foreign Policy . Her most recent book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything , was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016; it was also shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and named one of the five best books of the year by the Council on Foreign Relations.