{"product_id":"9780525557876","title":"Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best nonfiction books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTangled Up in Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the \"blue wall of silence\" in this radical inside examination of American policing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTangled Up in Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eTangled Up in Blue\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370248474685,"sku":"9780525557876","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780525557876_p0.jpg?v=1771566442","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780525557876","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}