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Author:

Domanick, Joe, author.

Title:

Blue : the LAPD and the battle to redeem American policing / Joe Domanick.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xix, 437 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department.
Police--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History.
Police misconduct--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History.
Police administration--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-428) and index.

Contents:

Something old -- Something borrowed -- Something blue -- Something new -- Epilogue : 2015.

Summary:

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. 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. --Adapted from book jacket.

ISBN:

1451641079
9781451641073

LCCN:

2015018052

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