| Rise of the Warrior Cop Lib/E: The Militarization of America's Police Forces Library Edition Contributor(s): Balko, Radley (Author), Baglia, Greg (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1470897954 ISBN-13: 9781470897956 Publisher: Public Affairs OUR PRICE: $111.59 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Law Enforcement |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.6" W x 6.1" (0.45 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America's cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies.In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians' ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America's earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Balko, Radley: - Radley Balko is an investigative journalist and reporter at the Washington Post. He currently writes and edits The Watch, a reported opinion blog that covers civil liberties and the criminal justice system. He is the author of the 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, which has won widespread acclaim, including from the Economist, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly, and was named one of the best investigative journalism books of the year by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. His January 2013 investigation, Solving Kathy Mabry's Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Decades-Long Mississippi Scandal, was one of the most widely read Huffington Post articles of 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Innocence Project's Journalism Award, in part for his coverage in Mississippi. Hughes, William: -William Hughes is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. A professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, he received his doctorate in American politics from the University of California at Davis. He has done voice-over work for radio and film and is also an accomplished jazz guitarist. |