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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oaklanddi Ali Winston
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Winston has been reporting on the OPD for over 20 years, and this book is the culmination of his following the PD's NSA, the scandals (so many scandals), the internal investigations, the punishments, the overturning of punishments, the changes in mayors and chiefs and personnel. This book is dense, with a lot of information and detail, and is impeccably sourced. I also found it a bit repetitive--but that is because the actual events are repetitive. Scandal--punishments--firing--hiring--improvement--scandal--etc etc etc. This department has been such a mess that the original judge overseeing the NSA retired despite wanting to see it through. Mayors come, mayors go, police chiefs come and go--I am very curious as to who is really controlling the atrocious behavior within the department. A seemingly competent chief comes, makes progress--and then loses ground. Is it the police union itself--and how and why? Is it institutional inertia? An old boys club that is larger than who is affected by the NSA? Both? If you have read Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley the scandal that inspired her novel on is discusses in depth near the end of this book. It is quite different and much more complicated in real life. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Over the last 60 years, more has been done in Oakland to reform policing than any other American city-and yet, Oakland has failed to reign in the tendencies of its police to prey upon, rather than protect, its communities. Why is this, and what does it mean both for Oakland, and for America? THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT will be the first authoritative account of the Oakland Police Department's troubling history of violence, secrecy, and mismanagement, and the city's unfulfilled promise to implement constitutional policing. By examining cases of police violence and corruption in one of America's most iconic cities, the Polk Award-winning investigative duo, Ali Winston & Darwin BondGraham, illustrate why criminal justice reform has proven an elusive goal for the entire nation. Their investigation will introduce readers to "The Riders," a band of corrupt cops running riot through the city, and to Keith Batt, a "fresh out of the academy" rookie assigned to patrol with the Riders. Winston & BondGraham deftly maneuver between the worlds of intransigent police culture to City Hall, where a lack of political will to see through reforms (and local prosecutors who failed to hold officers accountable) conspire to keep these cycles of brutality in place. Through never-before-seen reporting and interviews, the authors paint a portrait of a city-and nation-in crisis, and the steps needed to finally, once and for all, effectively address policing in the Unites States"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The Riders Come Out at Night is an excellent history for anyone interested in reforming policing, and many departments in the US need that right now. It's especially interesting to folks living in the San Francisco Bay Area or (like me) in the East Bay, since most of the stories the book documents are fresh in local memory.
Really liked this one. ( )