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The War on Cops

How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened. This book expands on Mac Donald's groundbreaking reporting on the Ferguson effect. It deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males.

The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of "mass incarceration". A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. In fact, Mac Donald argues, no government agency is more dedicated to the proposition that "black lives matter" than today's data-driven, accountable police department.

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Ranged more widely than its title suggests, exploring criminal justice as a whole. Earlier chapters, most relevant to debates about police brutality and racism, were most useful for contextualizing the public / social media debate. Later, she gets into incarceration practices and the challenges to them by academically trained criminologists and sociologists and lawyers: important, and not uninteresting, but makes you want to bang your head against the wall thinking about the waste of time and money occasioned by upper-class liberals with "big ideas." (Could you please let these governors and mayors get some of the people's business DONE?) At any rate, I'm sure I will be citing it a great deal in this age of anti-policing sentiment and ideology.

Relevant, devastating, and fairly depressing

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