Malcolm K. Sparrow served ten years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He has conducted internal affairs investigations, commanded a tactical firearms unit, and has extensive experience with criminal investigation. He is currently professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and faculty chair of the school's executive program—Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies. A mathematician by training, he is a patent-holding inventor in the area of automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). He holds an MA in mathematics from Cambridge University, an MPA from the Kennedy School, and a PhD in applied mathematics from Kent University at Canterbury.
“We need a clear vision of where policing in America is headed. We
surely need a broader view of what it means to succeed in the vital
but enormously complex enterprise of policing. Sparrow provides
rich and very timely help. Every police chief will find ideas here
they can use, and their communities will be better served as a
result.”—Charles Ramsey, Cochair, President’s Task Force on 21st
Century Policing, and Former Commissioner, Philadelphia Police
Department
“Hardly anyone writes more thoughtfully and perceptively about
policing than Malcolm Sparrow. He argues here that American law
enforcement has lost its way by failing to follow through on the
core commitments of community and problem-oriented policing. Anyone
who cares about the state of American policing should read this
book.”—David Alan Sklansky, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law,
Stanford Law School
“Malcolm Sparrow, one of the nation’s leading scholars on policing,
provides timely and penetrating analysis. He brushes aside, with
refreshing candor, much of the contemporary superficial treatment
of the field’s ills, challenging claims and assumptions that
clutter popular reform agendas. He proposes more profound and
ambitious change, drawing heavily on his work with other regulatory
agencies—a body of experience very comparable to local policing,
but rarely tapped for its relevance. This book points the way” and
ranks among the most valuable resources available during this
crisis.”—Herman Goldstein, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of
Wisconsin Law School, and author, Policing a Free Society and
Problem-Oriented Policing
“America’s police, still trying to recover from the Great
Recession,” now face the crisis resulting from Ferguson and
subsequent events. In Handcuffed Malcolm Sparrow makes an enormous
contribution, clarifying the underlying challenges and showing how
police can increase both effectiveness and community confidence.
This book reinforces Sparrow’s decades-long advocacy for
problem-oriented policing.”—Darrel W. Stephens, Executive Director,
Major Cities Chiefs Association
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