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12-03-09, 05:35 PM
(A thousand apologies if this book was already mentioned, but I did a search on the forums and didn't find any relevant results.)
Has anyone read the book "Are Cops Racist?" by Heather Mac Donald? It's more of a collection of articles that Mac Donald published in regards to the allegations of racial profiling (for the most part, she focuses on the NYPD but also focuses on other notable cities).
Before I get attacked or anything, the book is NOT focused on "proofs" of racial profiling. Heather Mac Donald focuses on debunking what she refers to as "hard racial profiling" and points out how this crusade against law enforcement is actually detrimental to black Americans. She provides many interesting statistics and studies in her favor and cites interviews she conducted with numerous officers, chiefs, citizens of high-crime neighborhoods, etc.
This was actually a book I read/summarized for an extra-credit project (it was more for my own benefit, since I really didn't need the points), and I'm very glad I read it. It's good to draw sources from now and then for papers/debates.
Here's the exermpt:
"The forces of opposition to "racial profiling" threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities. This is the message of Heather Mac Donald's new book, in which she brings her special brand of tough and honest jouranlism to the current war against the police.
"The anti-profiling crusade," she charges, "thrives on an ignorance of policing and a willful blindness to the demographics of crime." In careful reports from New York and other major cities across the country, Ms. Mac Donald investigates the workings of the police, the controversy over racial profiling, and the anti-profiling lobby's harmful effects on black Americans.
The reduction in urban crime, one of the nation's signal policy successes of the 1990s, has benefited black communities even more dramatically than white neighborhoods, she shows. By policing inner cities actively after long neglect, cops have allowed business and civil society to flourish there once more. But attacks on police, centering on charges of police racism and racial profiling, and spearheaded by activists, the press, and even the Justice Department, have slowed this success and threaten to reverse it.
Ms. MacDonald looks at the reality behind the allegations and writes about the black cops you never heard of, the press coverage of policing, and policing strategies across the country. Her iconoclastic findings demolish the prevailing anti-cop orthodoxy."
Has anyone read the book "Are Cops Racist?" by Heather Mac Donald? It's more of a collection of articles that Mac Donald published in regards to the allegations of racial profiling (for the most part, she focuses on the NYPD but also focuses on other notable cities).
Before I get attacked or anything, the book is NOT focused on "proofs" of racial profiling. Heather Mac Donald focuses on debunking what she refers to as "hard racial profiling" and points out how this crusade against law enforcement is actually detrimental to black Americans. She provides many interesting statistics and studies in her favor and cites interviews she conducted with numerous officers, chiefs, citizens of high-crime neighborhoods, etc.
This was actually a book I read/summarized for an extra-credit project (it was more for my own benefit, since I really didn't need the points), and I'm very glad I read it. It's good to draw sources from now and then for papers/debates.
Here's the exermpt:
"The forces of opposition to "racial profiling" threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities. This is the message of Heather Mac Donald's new book, in which she brings her special brand of tough and honest jouranlism to the current war against the police.
"The anti-profiling crusade," she charges, "thrives on an ignorance of policing and a willful blindness to the demographics of crime." In careful reports from New York and other major cities across the country, Ms. Mac Donald investigates the workings of the police, the controversy over racial profiling, and the anti-profiling lobby's harmful effects on black Americans.
The reduction in urban crime, one of the nation's signal policy successes of the 1990s, has benefited black communities even more dramatically than white neighborhoods, she shows. By policing inner cities actively after long neglect, cops have allowed business and civil society to flourish there once more. But attacks on police, centering on charges of police racism and racial profiling, and spearheaded by activists, the press, and even the Justice Department, have slowed this success and threaten to reverse it.
Ms. MacDonald looks at the reality behind the allegations and writes about the black cops you never heard of, the press coverage of policing, and policing strategies across the country. Her iconoclastic findings demolish the prevailing anti-cop orthodoxy."