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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.

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“This is a book America has been waiting for–a top cop's searing expose of corrupt, bigoted, brutal and trigger-happy policing in America and how to fix a broken system. It's the inside story, an MRI from former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, showing good cops taking risks to protect us all, to cities balancing the books with police fines, militarization run amok, and a police culture off the rails. Now, says Stamper, the mindset behind the badge has to focus first on public safety, crime, and collaboration not confrontation, with communities asserting control and clear federal standards to insure accountability. And he shows how it can be done.” –Hedrick Smith, author of Who Stole the American Dream? and Executive Editor of Reclaim The American Dream

“Most of the nation's approximately 18,000 police departments receive scathing criticism from one of their own…. A vivid, well-written, vitally important book.” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“A blistering structural critique of U.S. law enforcement… By emphasizing institutional change, Stamper makes a brave attempt to answer the common question (one asked whenever another unarmed African-American is shot by police), where are all the good cops?” –Publishers Weekly

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Norm Stamper was a cop for thirty-four years, the first twenty-eight in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle's police chief. He is credited as the architect of the nation's first community policing program and has a PhD in leadership and human behavior. He is the author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing (Nation Books, 2005).

He served as a founding member of President Clinton's National Advisory Council on the Violence Against Women Act, and as an advisory board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, along with numerous other boards dedicated to violence prevention, drug policy reform, and social justice. He has been called as an expert witness in approximately twenty police misconduct cases. He has written essays and opinion pieces for such publications as the New York Times, the Nation, Time Magazine, the Guardian (UK and US), Playboy, the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune, Penthouse, American Police Beat Magazine, and YES! Magazine.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bold Type Books; Illustrated edition (June 7, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568585403
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568585406
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Stamper sets a compass bearing along a less-traveled road from here to a better place. With a “buckle your seat belt” admonition

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“It’s hard to imagine a more taxing, difficult role in society.”
Norm Stamper on America’s police.

“[It] has a way of chewing up even strong-willed, well-intentioned young officers and spitting them out. Or co-opting them, and taking special pleasure in doing so.”
Norm Stamper on the cop culture.

Whether you’re a thirty-plus year veteran of law enforcement, as I am, or a citizen who knows America’s police only from the media, you should read To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police. It’s the right book at the right time, and asks some difficult questions. Why do police academies, on average, provide new officers 107 hours of instruction on use of firearms and defensive tactics, but only 16 hours on techniques of de-escalation and crisis intervention? What lasting effect will cell phone cameras and body cameras bring about, if any? Why were the police, city management, city council, prosecutor, and judiciary in Ferguson, Missouri complicit in “policing for profit”? If SWAT teams are designed for hostage, barricaded, and active-shooter situations, why are they used eighty percent of the time for drug raids in a $41 billion per year “bankrupt, no-win drug war”? And why are some 63 million positive contacts each year between the police and citizens undone by fifty-six baton blows to Rodney King in L.A., or a police shooting of a fleeing suspect in South Carolina, or the fatal choking of a misdemeanant in New York, or a deadly rough ride in a police prisoner van in Baltimore?

Norm Stamper, retired San Diego assistant police chief, former Seattle police chief, expert law enforcement witness, and a national speaker for LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) has the impressive credentials to ask such questions. He also provides a prescription on how to “fix” America’s police, now under heavy fire resulting from the succession of controversial police shootings and in-custody deaths. In a self-revealing and disarmingly honest discussion, Stamper sets a compass bearing along a less-traveled road from here to a better place. With a “buckle your seat belt” admonition, he proffers a revolutionary transformation on how America should select, train, and supervise its police officers so that they serve as “peacekeepers” instead of “warriors.” He sees the local community as the senior partner in the community-police partnership, and recommends key roles for women officers and the Federal government in accelerating the transition.

This book will infuriate many and elicit a loud “amen” from others, but few will be unmoved by Stamper’s well-written and persuasive arguments. Thick skinned and well-acquainted with controversy, and in something of a sequel to his first book, Breaking Rank, Stamper’s new book sets forth a provocative point of view that will most certainly stimulate much discussion in the near future. He has lit the torch. Who will try to extinguish it? Who will be willing to carry it?

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Timely contribution as the nation considers how to improve police-community relations

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2016

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Norm Stamper's book, To Protect and Serve, is timely as the nation considers how best to improve relations between police and the communities they serve. As the former Chief of Police for the City of Seattle, Stamper's observations are a welcomed contribution, especially for those of us seeking an easy-to-understand, jargon free policy discussion. In this way, Stamper's book could easily be adopted for an undergraduate political science course on public policy or local/state government.

The book is a must read for policy makers, academics, police, activists, and concerned members of the community. Stamper manages to provide a useful overview and evaluation of police tactics, equipment, and contemporary attempts to improve the image and function of police in America. Alongside these discussions, Stamper highlights cases involving police shootings and abuses of power to assist the reading in understanding why this is such a pressing issue and demands the attention of policy makers across the country.

To his credit, Stamper's book is written is easy-to-read prose that allows the reader to fully comprehend statistics and definitions that they be encountering for the first time. "To Protect and Serve" ends with a thoughtful discussion regarding a number of policy suggestions that would require collaboration amongst multiple levels of government.

Overall, this is a book that all sides of this ongoing debate on policing in America should read. Although Stamper freely shares his views -- and, at times, admits his biases -- he does a fantastic job of ensuring that all voices are heard and presented for the reader to discern the opposing views and identify a path for achieving reform that's amenable for all parties.

I will be assigning this as a required text for the course I teach on metropolitan governance.

As an aside: This is yet another superb book from Public Affairs Books and Nation Books. They continue to publish some of the most timely and significant contributions to public policy for a general and specialized audience.

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AN INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE ON HOW TO REFORM AMERICAN POLICING

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If you read only one book on American policing, read this book.

Stamper is an insider - a cop's cop who went from patrolman to chief of department - but he's also an activist who knows the world of social justice

He acknowledges the great good that police officers do; the heroism, the sacrifice, the putting their bodies on the line to protect the community

He also recognizes the dark side of policing - the militarism, the "boys with toys" idiocy of police departments with tanks and sniper rifles, the macho culture of violence, the "buddy boy" system where cops cover for their dirty fellow officers and lie on the witness stand and, above all, the racism that makes America's Black, Latino and American Indian communities hate and fear police

Stamper is willing to "think outside the box", break with entrenched police culture and transform the institution, no matter how uncomfortable it may be - and he demands that all the stakeholders - rank and file officers, senior police management, police officer labor unions, the justice system and, above all, the communities that the police serve - be similarly willing to change

Every law enforcement officer in America should read this book!

He's not anti cop - he's actually very pro police (just read the sections where he talks about police tactics and equipment - he wants to send you out well equipped and well trained, so you come back safe at the end of your shift)....but he knows that policing must be changed to keep up with the times.

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