Book
Police in America : inspecting the power of the badge
Publication Information
New York, NY : New York Times Educational Publishing, 2021.
Physical Description
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Summary
What is the role of police in the United States? From their presence in individual communities, to their efforts to maintain order and curb crime, American police forces face the challenges of public scrutiny and government support. Today, those challenges extend to questions surrounding the technology police use for law enforcement purposes, from databases to drones. The urgent issues of racial profiling, police misconduct, and brutality underscore efforts for police reform and training, as seen in recent pushes for accountability through body cameras. The articles in this collection investigate these questions.
Contents
- The point of order / New York Police to use social media to connect with residents / In New York, testing grounds for community policing / New York Police will retrain security staff at homeless shelters / Defining the role of the police in the community / Female police officers save lives / Supreme Court considers a thorny question of free speech and police power / Barr says communities that protest the police risk losing protection / What racial profiling? Police testify complaint is rarely made / Are police bigoted? / Class-action lawsuit, blaming police quotas, takes on criminal summonses / A struggle for common ground, amid fears of a national fracture / Police and protesters clash in Minnesota Capital / President Obama urges mutual respect from protesters and police / When police officers vent on Facebook / 'I was wrong' Bloomberg says. But this policy still haunts him. / Police training and gun use to get independent review / In police training, a dark film on U.S. Muslims / Obama puts focus on police success in struggling city in New Jersey / Long taught to use force, police warily learn to de-escalate / Training police in social and communication skills / Police leaders unveil principles intended to shift policing practices nationwide / New York Police illegally profiling homeless people, complaint says / A strategy to build police-citizen trust / Barriers to reforming police practices / Changes in policing take hold in one of the nation's most dangerous cities / I'm a police chief. We need to change how officers view their guns. / Police use surveillance tool to scan social media, A.C.L.U. says / New York Police say they will deploy 14 drones / Cleveland police officer contacted 2,300 women using work computer, authorities say / Police body-cam video appears to show Willie McCoy sleeping before he was fatally shot / Tracking phones, Google is a dragnet for the Police / Police data and the citizen app: partners in crime coverage / How the police use facial recognition, and where it falls short / New Jersey bars police from using Clearview Facial Recognition App / Have a search warrant for data? Google wants you to pay / Activists wield search data to challenge and change police policy / Activists say police abuse of transgender people persists despite reforms / 4 years after Eric Garner's death, Secrecy Law on police discipline remains unchanged / The lawyers protecting the N.Y.P.D. play hardball. Judges are calling them out. / Fort Worth officer charged with murder for shooting woman in her home / Philadelphia police inspector charged in sexual assaults of officers / Police officer charged with murder in killing of handcuffed suspect in Maryland / A Black police officer's fight against the N.Y.P.D.