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The Profession - A Memoir of Policing in America (Paperback)
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The Profession - A Memoir of Policing in America (Paperback)
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"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a
centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible
task. But centrism in law enforcement may be the most delicate
challenge of all. Bratton's ability to practice it was a startling
phenomenon." -New York Times Book Review The epic, transformative
career of Bill Bratton, legendary police commissioner and police
reformer, in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York When Bill Bratton
became a Boston street cop after his return from serving in
Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard, and it is fair
to say the old guard was dismayed by him, too. But his success
fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled by extraordinary
results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling
career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern
times. The Profession is the story of that career in full.
Everywhere he went, Bratton slashed crime rates and
professionalized the vocation of the cop. He and his team created
the revolutionary program CompStat, the Big Bang of modern
data-driven policing. But his career has not been without
controversy, and central to the reckoning of The Profession is the
fundamental crisis of relations between the Black community and law
enforcement; a crisis he now believes has been inflamed by the
unforeseen consequences of some well-intentioned policies. Building
trust between a police force and the community it is sworn to
protect is in many ways, Bratton argues, the first task--without
genuine trust in law enforcement to do what is right, little else
is possible. The Profession is both a searching examination of the
path of policing over the past fifty years, for good and also for
ill, and a master class in transformative leadership. Bill Bratton
was never brought into a police department to maintain the status
quo; wherever he went--from Boston in the '80s to the New York
Police Department in the '90s to Los Angeles after the beating of
Rodney King to New York again in the era of unchecked
stop-and-frisk--root-and-branch reinvention was the order of the
day and he met the challenge. There are few other positions on
Earth in which life-and-death stakes combine with intense public
scrutiny and turbulent political crosswinds as they do for the
police chief of a major American city, even more so after
counterterrorism entered the mix in the twenty-first century. Now
more than ever, when the role of the police in society is under a
microscope like never before, Bill Bratton's authority on the
subject of improving law enforcement is profoundly useful. A
riveting combination of cop stories and community involvement, The
Profession presents not only a fascinating and colorful life at the
heights of law-enforcement leadership, but the vision for the
future of American policing that we sorely need.
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