The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
Beyond this book's powerful implications for contemporary policing, it's must reading for those interested in the larger social, cultural and economic history of Gotham since WW2. Sophisticated, skillful, and myth-toppling scholarship. --Mike Wallace, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning GothamAsk Americans for a symbol of crime and failed policy and they ll likely name the "projects. Umbach inverts conventional wisdom, skillfully taking us where few tread we are better for it. --Sudhir Venkatesh,author of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets and American Project: The Rise and Fall of the Modern Ghetto