Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

An award-winning investigative reporter reveals the troubled history of the LAPD in a gripping story filled with hard-boiled, real-life characters that bring to life the ravages of the criminal justice system.

Vividly drawn and character-driven, Blue is simultaneously a drama of cops, crime and politics, and a primer on American police policy and reform. Using the LAPD as the bookâ‚¬s spine and through-line, Domanick illuminates urban policing at a crossroads during the tumultuous violence-plagued years of the early 1990s. Years when the beating of Rodney King and the LAPDâ‚¬s brutality sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, and police departments were caught between an often brutal, corrupt and racist past, and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population and environment.

From LA he then zooms to New York City, and details how the transformation of the NYPD that resulted in a dramatic decrease in crimeâ‚¬"even while the LAPD remained in freefall for a decade more before it too begins its road to reformation. Blue ends in the summer of 2014 with crime at record lows, but events in LA, NYC and Ferguson, Mo., raising alarming warnings about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of American policing.

Filled with political intrigue and cultural and racial conflict, Domanickâ‚¬s fast-paced account distills this history through the vivid characters that shaped it, from Americaâ‚¬s premiere police reformer, William J. Bratton; to Daryl Francis Gates, Chief of the LAPD during fourteen of the most tumultuous years in LAâ‚¬s history; to Charlie Beck, a street-hardened LAPD cop who later becomes Brattonâ‚¬s protÂ©gÂ©; to Alfred Lomas and Andre Christian, former members of two of LAâ‚¬s most fearsome gangs, who represent the other side of the LAPDâ‚¬s war on crime.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-08-11
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884603739181
EANs 9781451641073

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-08-11
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884603739181
EANs	9781451641073

Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

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