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The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as policing)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,656 ratings — published 2017
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as policing)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,124 ratings — published 2013
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as policing)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,757 ratings — published 2021
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as policing)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,013 ratings — published 2010
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as policing)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,076 ratings — published 2021
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as policing)
avg rating 4.34 — 422 ratings — published 2003
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as policing)
avg rating 4.16 — 282 ratings — published 2016
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as policing)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,662 ratings — published 2003
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,299 ratings — published 2007
Chokehold: Policing Black Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,123 ratings — published 2017
Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads) (Volume 56)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.03 — 87 ratings — published
The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.19 — 193 ratings — published 2000
When Police Kill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 3.84 — 69 ratings — published
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.50 — 599 ratings — published
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.41 — 899 ratings — published 2019
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,173 ratings — published 2015
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 3.87 — 241 ratings — published 2019
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,451 ratings — published 2018
Police: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.04 — 255 ratings — published 2018
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,094 ratings — published 2017
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.42 — 106 ratings — published 2019
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,618 ratings — published 2017
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.58 — 493 ratings — published
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.70 — 178 ratings — published 2017
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,816 ratings — published 1991
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.99 — 338 ratings — published 2021
The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.97 — 233 ratings — published
Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,130 ratings — published 2021
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.51 — 829 ratings — published 2020
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,150 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,363 ratings — published 2021
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.68 — 152 ratings — published 2020
Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.85 — 26 ratings — published
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,884 ratings — published 2018
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.40 — 212 ratings — published 1978
Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2006
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,406 ratings — published 2017
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.00 — 343,189 ratings — published 2019
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.58 — 646 ratings — published 2017
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.90 — 172 ratings — published 2015
A Colony in a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,487 ratings — published 2017
To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.83 — 169 ratings — published 2016
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,278 ratings — published 2016
Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 2001
Great British Bobby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.83 — 58 ratings — published 2009
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published
Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.48 — 60 ratings — published
No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.49 — 61 ratings — published
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.11 — 24,751 ratings — published 1992
“policing is not a malevolent conspiracy; most police officers take seriously their role as public servants. The widely publicized incidents of police violence and abuse often lead us to forget that the vast majority of police officers spend the vast majority of their time helping people who ask for their help. Americans call 911 both in genuine emergencies and for trivial reasons, and police officers don’t get to choose whether to respond.”
― Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
― Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, legalize it . . . [Prohibition is] a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
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