Description: Breaking Rank : A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing, Paperback by Stamper, Norm, ISBN 1560258551, ISBN-13 9781560258551, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Seattle's former police chief combines memoir and polemic in reflecting on his three decades as a police officer. He is quite critical of many aspects of contemporary American policing, including homophobia, increasing militarization of police forces, lack of emphasis on community policing, and other problems. Towards the end of the volume, he gives his personal account of the 1999 "Battle in Seattle" during the meeting of the World Trade Organization. Although critical of the management of the situation by himself and other top city officials, his account is unlikely to mollify peaceful activists or innocent passers-by shot by rubber bullets, tear-gassed, or otherwise abused by rioting police officers, as Stamper elides over the sequence of events concerning the use of force and blames the debacle on his own and others naiveté, lack of resources, and the stereotypical thuggish anarchist bent on violence that is ubiquitous to police riots around the world. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Breaking Rank : A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American P
Author: Stamper, Norm
Language: english
