The police in the us participate in the people-not the other way around. Yet millions of People in america encounter their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an excessively aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For his or her part, today’s officials feel they are under siege-misunderstood, unfairly criticized, and scapegoated for society’s ills. Will there be a fix? Past Seattle Police Key Norm Stamper believes there is.

Policing is within crisis. The final decade has observed a vast upsurge in law enforcement about To Protect and Serve aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding decrease in transparency and accountability. It isn’t just visible in African American and various other minority communities-where there were some high-profile tragedies-but in towns and cities across the country. Racism-from uncooked, individualized variations to insidious systemic examples-appears to be increasing in our police departments. General, our cops have grown increasingly more alienated from your people they are hired to serve.

In To Protect and Serve, Stamper delivers a groundbreaking new model for American police: the community-based police department. It demands fundamental changes in the federal government government’s function in local policing aswell as citizen participation in all aspects of police procedures: policymaking, program development, criminal offense fighting and program delivery, entry-level and ongoing education and schooling, oversight of law enforcement conduct, and-especially highly relevant to today’s challenges-joint community-police crisis management. Nothing will ever switch until the program itself is certainly radically restructured, and here Stamper shows us how.