Norm Stamper
Author of To Protect and Serve:
How to Fix America’s Police
Table of Contents
Introduction
Crime and Punishment
- An Open Letter to a Bad Cop
- Wage War on Crime, Not Drugs
- Prostitution: Get a Room!
- Capital Punishment: The Coward’s Way Out
- Criminals’ Rights: Worth Protecting?
- Getting a Grip on Guns
- Men
Cop Culture
- Why White Cops Kill Black Men
- Racism in the Ranks
- “Split-Tails”
- Sexual Predators in Uniform
- Blue Wall of Silence
- The Police Image: Sometimes a Gun is Just a Gun
- It’s Not All Cops and Robbers
- Doughnuts, Tacos, and Fat Cops
The Police Department
- Demilitarizing the Police
- Picking Good Cops
- Staying Alive in a World of Sudden, Violent Death
- Undercover
Policing the Police
- Treating Cops Like Kids: Police Discipline
- 1A Dark Take on Financial Liability
- Up With Labor (Not So Fast, Police Unions)
- Living With Killing
- Citizen Oversight
Politics of Policing
- Egos on Patrol
- Marching for Dykes on Bikes (and Against Jesus)
- The Fourth Estate: A Chief’s Lament
- Snookered in Seattle: The WTO Riots
- Community Policing: A Radical View
- Cultivating Fearless Police Leadership
Conclusions