Unable to add item to List. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe by Heather Mac Donald (Paperback, 2017) Be the first to write a review. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. Inspire a love of reading with Amazon Book Box for Kids. For reasons I still don't understand, the left has decided that the annual deaths of as many as 6,000 black males is less important than the extremely rare unjustified police homicide of an innocent. ISBN: 9781594039683 To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. All serious students of urban America today should read this book and reckon with its arguments.” Glenn C. Loury, the Merton P. Stolz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University “The War on Cops offers a perspective that supporters of law enforcement have long been waiting for. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Observation: Notation: Selected Writings of Andrew Forge, Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil's Grip on Our. Homicides in the country’s 50 largest cities rose nearly 17 percent in 2015, the greatest surge in fatal violence in a quarter-century, reports the Washington Post. And police leaders challenged the “root causes” concept with a countervailing idea: the police could actually prevent crime and, in so doing, would make civilized urban life possible again. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip. Starting in the late 1970s, legislators demanded that convicted criminals serve more of their sentences; habitual felons were finally locked up for lengthy prison stays. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. It deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males. The crime surge was especially troubling in that it reversed a two-decade-long decline, during which American cities vanquished a 1960s-era notion that had made urban life miserable for so many. Fascinating to read, full of examples backed by data and/or research. It explodes myths about the South as America’s exclusive racial scapegoat. The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of “mass incarceration.” A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2018. It is the agenda of sharia, Islam’s authoritarian legal and political system. is sea change in policing philosophy originated in New York in 1994 under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney who had campaigned on the promise to free the city from its growing squalor and anarchy. Reads like an editorial piece. I was hoping for more - a more in-depth discourse on how the public, and police officers, should respond to the "war on cops". Her essays helped to lay out the rationale that gave me and my police commissioners guidance during the largest continuous reduction in crime ever accomplished in our city and nation. Mac Donald appears to claim the discovery of the "Ferguson effect" - the reluctance by police officer to engage in self-initiated law enforcement activities in favor of reactive responses to perceived or actual criminal activity. Sign up to receive the latest news, including new releases, special offers and more. You Save 6%. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Children no longer had to sleep in bathtubs to avoid getting hit by stray bullets. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Mac Donald’s clear-eyed analysis separates fact from fiction and provides keen insights into the politics at play and the consequences for law-enforcement officers and the communities they are sworn to protect.” —Ray Kelly, former commissioner of the New York City Police Department known as Black Lives Matter has convulsed the nation. Now, that triumph over chaos and lawlessness is in jeopardy. Whether you want facts about the explosive events in Ferguson, Missouri, or in Baltimore, or you want to know why murder rates in New York City fell sharply in the 1990s, this is the place to find solid information. Of course the left dismiss Heather MacDonald as a an "alt right" voice or some such thing. Cops enter the profession as young men and women - they want to serve, they have ideals, they want to make a difference in their communities. The Democrats have long had the Police under their radar. It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. 151, 21 California's Prison-Litigation Nightmare 185, PRAISE FOR THE WAR ON COPS “This is a book that can save lives.” Thomas Sowell “Heather Mac Donald is an unsung hero in the transformation of New York into the safest large city in the United States. Diversity is America’s newest cultural ideal. Made in the USA! Encounter Books; First Edition (June 21, 2016). But while more were killed in ambushes, statistically it is a … Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. It gave me quite a bit to think about. A book like this needed to be written. Having served in law enforcement for 30 years, I concur with Mac Donald's conclusion that there is a war on cops. Please try again. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}View high quality images that let you zoom in to take a closer look. New York, NY 10003, How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, Heather Mac Donald discussed her explosive. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning, Perspectives on Hate: How It Originates, Develops, Manifests, and Spreads. lurks. You may be charged a restocking fee up to 50% of item's price for used or damaged returns and up to 100% for materially different item. .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration. Fueling the rise in crime in places like Baltimore and Milwaukee is a multipronged attack on law enforcement. 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Harry Stein attacks the rigid prohibitions that have long governed the conversation about race, not to offend or shock (though they certainly will) but to provoke the serious thinking that liberal enforcers have until now rendered impossible. There was a problem loading your book clubs. She warns that race-based attacks on the criminal-justice system, from the White House on down, are eroding the authority of law and putting lives at risk. One star for that alone. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives.