Stop Trying To Fix Policing

In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifying combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization, self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American policing. Stop Trying to Fix Policing is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the rhetoric of police reform, to the next step: contributing to the formation of a world without policing.

This practical guide to policing reform presents a call to action to address a threefold crisis in policing – a catastrophic loss of trust between police and the communities they serve; a sharp increase in violent crime after decades of decline; and a serious recruitment and retention challenge depleting police departments across the United States. The authors also recognize that, while these issues are now top of mind, policing needs far-reaching reform in order to respond to changes in society and its expectations, changes in crime and other threats to public safety, new technologies, and developments in best practice. Most reform to date has been piecemeal, as the book describes. The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing.

"Stamper offers new insights into the conditions that have created [the problems in American policing], reminding us that police in a democratic society belong to the people--and not the other way around ... [and delivering] a revolutionary new model for American law enforcement: the community-based police department"--

"This book examines, describes, and explains the current state of American policing. It proposes a new paradigm that emphasizes the protection of life as the primary mandate, moving away from mere coercion and social control"--

They also offer a convincing argument that stop and frisk did not contribute as greatly to the drop in New York's crime rates as many proponents, like former NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have argued. While much of the book focuses on the NYPD's use of stop and frisk, examples are also shown from police departments around the country, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Newark and Detroit. White and Fradella argue that not only does stop and frisk have a legal place in 21st-century policing but also that it can be judiciously used to help deter crime in a way that respects the rights and needs of citizens. They also offer insight into the history of racial injustice that has all too often been a feature of American policing's history and propose concrete strategies that every police department can follow to improve the way they police.

Authors Franklin and Hein have witnessed firsthand difficulties experienced in some black communities. They use their knowledge to analyze and discuss the interactions between American policing, a subculture of the black community and the BLM movement. The authors wrote this book not because of attacks on police officers but because of overzealous actions by officers to shoot black men. It describes how blue on black shootings along with police tactics sometimes cause intense citizen responses through public statements, outbursts, and demonstrations. It begins with an examination of the differences between the black and white communities; how the same incident can be viewed from two different perspectives and how a discussion can be perceived unbiased by one but biased and unjust by another. Because of civil rights efforts American policing is going through a transformation. A change in policing tactics must be met with a re-evaluation of some cultural norms by the black community. They also discuss the lack of support by blacks shown to other blacks when there is an impression of being “not black enough.” The authors believe in political correctness, but also believe that political correctness is harming the black community, because well-recognized negative issues in some communities are not being addressed to avoid criticism of black culture. In the final chapter the authors discuss the failure of black leadership to make any earnest effort to rescue a wanting black subculture from itself. Finally, the authors believe that American policing understands its 21st century obligations and is taking steps to meet them.

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers “One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework.” —NBCNews.com on Mariame Kaba In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens. Centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and highlighting uprisings, campaigns, and community-based projects, No More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence in all its forms are abundant. Part handbook, part road map, No More Police calls on us to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it toward a world where violence is the exception, and safe, well-resourced and thriving communities are the rule.

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.

The title of this book is, SLIP. SLIP stands for; "Stop and Listen to Instructions of the Police." This book is instructive, philosophical, and spiritual. The purpose of this book is to offer solutions to the problems of excessive use of deadly force by the police, and violent hate crimes against police officers. Obviously, there are too many tragic killings by and against police officers nowadays. When we observe the entirety of police officers taking human lives at such an alarming rate, indeed, the problem seems too big and too complicated to solve. In reality, many have tried, and many have failed at trying to fix the problem of police officers taking human life on such a regular basis. I stepped back and took a closer look at many cases in which police officers took human lives. I was surprised but encouraged at what I found out. I remain encouraged that the problem of deadly force is quite fixable, and positive results can be obtained very affordably. My epiphany, as I sat and researched those numerous cases was, almost categorically, in every case of killed by police officer tragedies, you'll find one common fatal error. The fatal flaw is, people do not stop and listen to instruction of the police (SLIP). Other books on the subject of fixing the problem of the police using excessive deadly force talk about what law enforcement and the legal system should do. Such content focus only on training, body cameras, and holding police officers accountable. Those efforts are important building blocks but so far, nothing changes. Maybe when we combine such tools with the sound structured teachings of SLIP we will start to save lives of both the community and police officers. SLIP is a great book to equip parents, guardians, teachers, and police officers to bring about societal change via empowering our youth with people skills that can save lives in the near future. To create a way to fix the problem of police deadly force, we must create a way to do it that is simple enough for everybody to understand. I am happy to say, I wrote SLIP as a step by step guide for creating peace and harmony between police officers and the community whenever they interact. Just to make sure SLIP is a more memorable catchphrase, I refer to SLIP as "SLIP Away from Harm," often throughout the book.I find it significant to mention before I go any further, I am a black man. Per the research I do, my findings are, the key trigger for police officers using deadly force is, people fail to stop and follow instructions. I urge people to pick any case that ended in death by a police officer and take a closer look at the details. They will find that failure to stop and follow instructions was the flammable ingredient that sparked police use of deadly force, far more so than racism. Pay attention to race, though, and often you will find that the victims are white, or otherwise nonblack, or the victim and the police officer are of the same race. I focus heavily on race sometimes in SLIP because I want people to get over being too angry about race. Instead, we should focus our energy on workable solutions that will save the lives of children down the road. SLIP is written with a heavy emphasis on teaching people from childhood to "SLIP Away from Harm," by always cooperating and being respectful to police officers.

Dr. McKee begins this book with what was once a bold assertion that policing in America is broken. Based on a 2016 paper he wrote with his colleague Dr. Andre Lewis, McKee asserts that a new paradigm of community policing is the solution. A major contention of the book is that America has already developed the tools needed to fix policing, we just need a systematic way of thinking about those changes as a whole (a theoretical framework), and to develop the political will to implement them. The failure of previous attempts to install community policing is examined, and prescriptions are made on how those problems can be avoided in the future.