Breaking Rank
A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing
$63.93
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2006
Summary
Opening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. Former chief of the Seattle police force, Stamper goes on to expose a troubling culture of racism, sexism, and homophobia that is still pervasive within the twenty-first-century force then he explores how such prejudices…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781560258551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1560258551 |
| Author: | Norm Stamper |
| Publisher: | Avalon Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Nation Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 467g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Politics, Culture and Society |
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“Breaking Rank reveals an advocate for the kind of progressive social justice that Bobby Kennedy would have loved–a cop with guts enough to admit his own mistakes, learn from them, and remain a voice for changing the institution that both made and broke him.”
About The Author
Norm Stamper
Norm Stamper began his law enforcement career in San Diego in 1966 as a beat cop. In 1994, he was named chief of the Seattle Police Department, where he set about implementing many of the initiatives he writes about in Breaking Rank. Retiring in 2000, he now lives in a cabin on a mountain in the San Juan Islands in Washington State.
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