Blue
eBook - ePub

Blue

The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Blue

The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

About this book

From award-winning investigative journalist and author Joe Domanick, Blue explores the history of police culture and reform in the United States and the systems that enable racially motivated police brutality. Beginning with the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and ending with the tumultuous police controversies swirling around both Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City in 2014, Domanick's fast-paced book is filled with political intrigue, cultural and racial conflict, hard-boiled characters like intransient, warrior minded cops like LAPD chief Daryl Gates and America's most famous police reformer, William J. Bratton. As the Los Angeles Times put it, Blue "weaves a compelling, fact-filled tale of a turbulent city in transition and a police department that often seems impervious to civilian control."As the story unfolds, Domanick seamlessly injects and analyzes police policies and actions, while discussing police accountability and legitimacy, effective crime-reduction based on real, long-term community policing, and what is necessary for a new stage of progressive police reform to take place. As Kirkus Reviews summed up in a starred review: "This is a well-executed, large-scale urban narrative, sprawling, engrossing, and highly relevant to the ongoing controversies about policing post-Ferguson."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Key Players
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Part One: Something Old
  7. Part Two: Something Borrowed
  8. Part Three: Something Blue
  9. Part Four: Something New
  10. Epilogue: 2015
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. About Joe Domanick
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Copyright