How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative
Alex S. Vitale is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. Before joining academia he was on the staff of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. He is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics. He consults with both police departments and human rights organizations internationally, is Senior Policy Advisor to the Police Reform Organizing Project in New York City, and is on the New York State Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. He has written recent pieces in the New York Daily News, The Nation, and The New Republic.
Offers a convincing argument that the traditional roles played by
police forces have been largely counter-productive.
*Morning Star*
"The End of Policing is that holiday argument book, the relatively
brief stack of facts you can hand to a relative who still talks
about those nice guys who helped out with the flat tire and doesn't
see why any lives have to matter more than they already do. A
thorough rinsing of the American criminal justice system."
*4 Columns*
"Vitale's amassing of trenchant facts into an enticing intellectual
framework makes The End of Policing a must-read for anyone
interesting in waging and winning the fight for economic and social
justice."
*Indypendent*
"An extremely vital book on policing. Should be assigned at all
police academies. If only the Philando Castile jurors had read
this."
*Jeffrey Fagan, Director of Columbia Law School's Center for Crime,
Community, and Law*
The End of Policing offers a compelling digest of the dynamics of
crime and law enforcement, and a polemic against the militarization
of everything. Vitale calls for a dismantling of our very notion of
the police: a sprawling, untethered bureaucracy permitted to use
lethal force and unaccountable to the people.
*Bookforum*
A welcome challenge to reformist thinking and a powerful argument
against social and economic injustice, inequality and racism.
*LSE Review of Books*
[The End of Policing] suggests a radical alternative that, on the
one hand, abolishes corrupt and lethal police policies designed to
contain the racialised poor and, on the other, develops and
sustains safer communities
*Race & Class*
A compelling critique of modern policing.
*Counterfire*
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