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Hardcover For their part, today’s officers feel they are under siege—misunderstood, unfairly criticized, and scapegoated for society’s ills. Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of America’s Police Norm Stamper…has written a story like no other.

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Stamper was police chief for Seattle from 1994 to … In 1994, he was named chief of the Seattle Police Department, where he set about implementing many of the initiatives he writes about in Breaking Rank.

, Paperback As the former Chief of Police for the City of Seattle, Stamper's observations are a welcomed contribution, especially for those of us seeking an easy-to-understand, jargon free policy discussion. ( Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite featuresOpening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. Audible Audiobook He offers penetrating insights into the "blue wall of silence," police undercover work, and what it means to kill a man. Norm Stamper was a cop for thirty-four years, the first twenty-eight in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle's police chief. (From the book jacket.) Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. They played their snitches, sat on open-air markets, interrupted hand-to-hand dealing, and squeezed small-time street dealers in the climb up the chain to “Mister Big.” But because most local police forces devoted only a small percentage of personnel to French Connection–worthy cases, and because there were no “mandatory minimum” sentences (passed by Congress in 1986 to strip “soft on crime” judges of sentencing discretion on a host of drug offenses), and because street gangs fought over, well, streets—as in neighborhood turf (and cars and girlfriends)—not drug markets, most of our jails and prisons still had plenty of room for violent, predatory criminals.

We don’t talk about it, we pretend it doesn’t exist, we claim “color blindness,” we say white officers treat black men the same way they treat white men.

Stamper draws on lessons learned to make powerful arguments for drug decriminalization, abolition of the death penalty, and radically revised approaches to prostitution and gun control. The African-American community knows this. Opening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. He is credited as the architect of the nation's first community policing program and has a PhD in leadership and human behavior. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. And, Stamper gives his personal account of the World Trade organization debacle of 1999, when protests he was in charge of controlling turned violent in the streets of Seattle. In fact, the bigger, the darker the black man the greater the fear. The African-American community knows this. Mostly, you were on the prowl for non-drug-related crime: a gas station or liquor store stickup series, a burglary-fencing ring, an auto theft “chop shop” operation. Retiring in 2000, he now lives in a cabin on a mountain in the San Juan Islands in Washington State.A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American PolicingBreaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American PolicingThe best police stories are told by police officers. In fact, the bigger, the darker the black man the greater the fear. Something went wrong. 155 It’s the right book at the right time, and asks some difficult questions.

But there was no “war,” per se, on drug-law violators. In 1994, he was named chief of the Seattle Police Department, where he set about implementing many of the initiatives he writes about in Breaking Rank. Quotes by Norm Stamper “Simply put, white cops are afraid of black men. He reveals the dangers and temptations that cops face, describing in gripping detail the split-second life-and-death decisions. Norm Stamper began his law enforcement career in San Diego in 1966 as a beat cop. Former chief of the Seattle police force, Stamper goes on to expose a troubling culture of racism, sexism, and homophobia that is still pervasive within the twenty-first-century force; then he explores how such prejudices can be addressed. He offers penetrating insights into the "blue wall of silence," police undercover work, and what it means to kill a man. But that’s a lie.