Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City By Rosa Brooks

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Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policingIn her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department.Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested.In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the "blue wall of silence." She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right.

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This new book got on my radar when I recently heard an interview with the author on National Public Radio – where books are profiled from a middle-of-the-road, non-partisan perspective. The author sounded sincere, experienced, knowledgeable, and had put her thoughts and theories about police, criminal justice, poverty, and social justice on the line by becoming a “sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department” even though she was already a tenured professor of law. Yes, that immediately opens her up to the charge of being a dilettante as a cop, but her training, responsibilities, and actual experiences put her close enough to the real world to have valid opinions. [I’m sorry to say that the handful of 1-star reviews posted on Amazon about this book are likely from total partisans trying to discredit it because it’s nuanced, conflicted at times, and could be interpreted as being anti-police if that’s what someone is looking for.] I happen to believe that mass incarceration, institutional racism, and corrosive poverty are real, conflict with our values, and damage everyone. If that makes me a flaming liberal so be it but can’t we get beyond name calling and make some progress? That’s clearly the aim of this book that tells a limited personal story from start to finish based on a foundation of sociology, history, and ethics. [If you believe that sociology, history, and ethics are fake, go ahead and rate this book one star.] The D.C. Metro Police along with the Capital Police just saved our democracy so I can cut them some slack if they’re not all 100% effective and competent 100% of the time (just like parents, teachers, doctors, truck drivers, or oil rig workers). I found “Tangled Up” to be authentic, measured, funny, modest, and maybe too revealing about how some people behave and talk. I cringed at times, but also acknowledge that I’ve never been the victim of racism, poverty, violent crime, or even mental illness. Most of what we suffer from AS A SOCIETY is a Gordian knot of dysfunction, dishonesty, and ignorance. For those who want to reflect, learn, and make some progress, this is a very good book to read over a few days. I think the author is courageous and honors her values. More of us should do the same.

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