Blue by Joe Domanick - ISBN: 9781451641103
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Unmasking police culture, brutality, and reform in America’s turbulent history.

Blue

The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

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  • Paperback

    464 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2016

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Summary

From award-winning investigative journalist and author Joe Domanick, Blue explores the history of police culture and reform in the United States and the systems that enable racially motivated police brutality.

Beginning with the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and ending with the tumultuous police controversies swirling around both Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City in 2014, Domanick’s fast-paced book is filled with political intrigue, cultural and racial conflict, hard-boiled char…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781451641103
ISBN-10:1451641109
Author:Joe Domanick
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:1 October 2016
Weight:411g
Dimensions:213mm x 140mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

“An incisive examination of American policing…sprawling, engrossing, and highly relevant to the ongoing controversies about policing post-Ferguson.” * Kirkus (Starred Review) *“In a time when controversial police actions have virtually split America apart, it’s impossible to imagine a more important book than Joe Domanick’s Blue. His mesmerizing account of how the Los Angeles Police Department descended into fanatic racism, then was healed by new leadership’s combined commitment to fairness and common sense, is a lesson that must be learned by all of us, law enforcement officials and community activists most of all.” – Jeff Guinn, author of the New York Times bestselling Manson

About The Author

Joe Domanick

An award-winning investigative journalist and author, Joe Domanick is Associate Director of the CMCJ and West Coast Bureau Chief of The Crime Report. Among his books, To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Nonfiction “true-crime” book; Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State has been assigned reading at Stanford Law School, and was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle.

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