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- This product had a total of 38 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 31 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I am sure people think it is simply a book about abolishing policing when in fact it provides a sound critique how we as a society expect the police to solve a broad range of social issues
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As one quoted officer says in the book police work is 99 boredom and 1 sheer terror
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It takes on another perspective of the problem of policing and over policing as well as the problem of officers being trained for combatwar type situations rather than how to act when you see a simple situation in the street
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And dont let the title fool you this is not about ending investigations of crime or ending punishment for those who do harm it is about ending a process of patrol surveillance and intrusion that has become so commonplace that we do not even know that it is new
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Vitale currently a sociology professor at brooklyn college – cuny with a rich handson history engaging some of america’s most demanding social problems takes his readers on a chapterbychapter tour of law enforcement’s most inveterate problems
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Chapters devoted to policing in schools encountering the mentally ill dealing with the homelessness policing sex work the war on drugs think of it as the hundred years war ii gang suppression border policing and political policing each present a vivid and fair accounting of how law enforcement efforts have failed to be effective have exacerbated many of these conditions andor have in some ways added additional injustices corruption excessive force and violations of civil rights
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Professor vitale provides countless examples for each of these “crime problem” areas actually “legalsocialpublic health problems would be a more accurate description
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Having personally engaged first hand nearly every principle topic addressed in the end of policing except school policing and border policing has only convinced me further of the validity of the author’s observations and analysis’s of these problems and challenges faced by american policing on a unilateral basis