The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Written by Heather Mac Donald
Narrated by Pam Ward
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About this audiobook
This book expands on Mac Donald's groundbreaking reporting on the Ferguson effect. It deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males.
The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of "mass incarceration." A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. In fact, Mac Donald argues, no government agency is more dedicated to the proposition that "black lives matter" than today's data-driven, accountable police department.
Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald is the national bestselling author of The War on Cops, a Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. A former aspiring academic with roots in deconstruction and postmodernism, she has been the target of violent student protest for her work on policing. She received the 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. Her writings have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Partisan Review, among others. She lives in New York.
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Reviews for The War on Cops
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Copaganda meant to stoke the fears of the upper middle classes and justify thier thirst for retribution.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book, well researched and non of this populist garbage. Until people take accountability for their lives and all these social programs are ended we are going nowhere.
Get pregnant and get a grant as we call it in SA, what motivation do you have not to do it again? Create a justice system that is deliberately stacked against the father and you wonder why men are not home to raise their kids. Consequence, a new breed of young men who have no work ethic because daddy was not there to tell him 'men don't cry'!
The justice system encourages this because judges and magistrates want to secure jobs, lawyers love it because conflict in the family means profit. Only way to fix this is to kick government out of the home, let the 2 that equally made the child be held accountable, if they're too broke then a grant is fine but they must work for it, the parents!1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great and insightful book. Good job helping to explain the war on cops.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author makes some compelling arguments about the need for more proactive policing, especially in high crime areas, such as inner cities. She discusses how law-abiding citizens in these areas actually desire more aggressive police involvement because the result is that crime decreases, they feel safer in their neighborhoods so they can leave their homes to do what they need to without fear, and more businesses become attracted to those areas because they do not need to worry about the safety of the employees or patrons. The author looks at statistics quoted to support the position that such proactive policing is racially biased, but she interprets these statistics with different results, something that reflects how statistics can be interpreted in numerous ways. I found her book to be a thoughtful look at some difficult issues that need to be addressed more successfully than what we are now doing.