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Ivan R. Dee
June 2010
On Sale: June 16, 2010
192 pages
ISBN: 1566638674
EAN: 9781566638678
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Non-Fiction
False charges of 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 journalism 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 false charges of
police racism and racial profiling, and spearheaded by
activists, the press, and even the Justice Department, have
slowed the success and threaten to reverse it. Ms. Mac
Donald looks at the reality behind the allegations and
writes about the black cops you never heard about, the press
coverage of policing, and policing strategies across the
country. Her iconoclastic findings demolish the prevailing
anti-cop orthodoxy.
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