The End of Policing

Written by:
Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by:
Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
20
Narrator
5
Release Date
April 2019
Duration
8 hours 17 minutes
Summary
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in combination. The core of the problem must be addressed: the nature of modern policing itself.

This book attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice-even public safety. Drawing on groundbreaking research from across the world, and covering virtually every area in the increasingly broad range of police work, Alex Vitale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.

In contrast, there are places where the robust implementation of policing alternatives-such as legalization, restorative justice, and harm reduction-has led to a decrease in crime, spending, and injustice. The best solution to bad policing may be an end to policing.
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Anonymous

The author did fine in compiling what has happened however the proposed solutions is based on the fallacy that just giving people money, homes, and jobs solves person responsibility and accountability problems. Additionally it assumes that a taking from those you have and giving to those who do not have to fund all the giving is sustainable and will not create a communistic state which is what has always happened historically.

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McKenzie Bottoms

Very informative and well read as well as well written.

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