Rise of the Warrior Cop
Subtitle: the militarization of America's police forces
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781610394574
Copyright date: 2014
Notes: Radley Balko is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about civil liberties, police, prosecutors, and the broader criminal justice system. He is currently a writer and investigative reporter for the Washington Post. Previously, he was a senior writer and investigative reporter for the Huffington Post, senior editor for Reason magazine, and a policy analyst for the Cato Institute. In 2011, the Los Angeles Press Club named him Journalist of the Year. - Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From Rome to writs; title: Soldiers in the streets; title: A quick history of cops in America; title: The 1960s: from root causes to brute force; title: The 1970s: pinch and retreat; title: The 1980s: us and them; title: The 1990s: it's all about the numbers; title: The 2000s: a whole new war; title: Reform; title: Conclusion