Cop Cop
breaking the fixed system of american policing
$66.40
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2025
Summary
Cop Cop: Behind the Blue Wall of Silence
This groundbreaking work takes readers deep into the world of police oversight and reveals what really happens when everyday people try to hold the police accountable.
When you think about the police, who do you think of: Do you think of one officer, or the police as an institution? From movies and TV to the real world, a police presence looms over most conflict. But if there was a defining feature of the 2020 protest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781638930082 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1638930082 |
| Author: | Mac Muir, Greg Finch |
| Publisher: | Zando |
| Imprint: | Zando |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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Critics Review
“Why is it so difficult to hold bad cops accountable? In this provocative and enlightening book, we learn about the world of civilian-led police accountability in New York City and why it rarely succeeds. Through harrowing real stories of police misconduct investigated by the authors themselves, as well as an exploration of the modern CompStat-focused system of incentives and the self-protective police bureaucracy, we are left understanding the deep-seated cynicism and hopelessness that cops and the public experience. We can do better than this, as the authors suggest at the end. Let’s hope so.” –Cathy O’Neil, New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction
About The Author
Mac Muir
Mac Muir (Author)
Mac Muir was raised in Oakland, California. From 2016 to 2022 he rose to become a Supervising Investigator at the New York City CCRB. From 2023 to 2025, Mac served as Executive Director of Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency.
Gregory Finch (Author)
Greg Finch was raised in Queens, New York. Greg was a senior investigator at the CCRB, where he worked from 2016 to 2025.
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