Beat Cop to Top Cop

Beat Cop to Top CopA Tale of Three CitiesJohn F. Timoney. Foreword by Tom Wolfe<i>Beat Cop to Top Cop</i> is a riveting ride inside the accelerating squad car of John Timoney's career. Page by page you realize that he's the real life version of the celluloid cop envisioned by countless casting directors. They usually get his physical fitness rugged good looks proud Irish heritage and honor of the badge. But Timoney is more than that. As he takes readers from the streets of New York City to Philadelphia to Miami it becomes obvious what sets him apart: a rare blend of both street and intellectual smarts. Timoney's as comfortable with the beat cop or victim as he is with a city's mayor or its media elite. The blue line isn't thin when Timoney is in uniform. You pray he's the man in charge of the police department that answers your call to 911.--Michael Smerconish nationally syndicated radio hostBorn in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx he entered the New York City Police Department quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies protocols and management systems including CompStat that led to historic declines in nearly every category of crime. In 1998 Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. Philadelphia became the great laboratory experiment: Could the systems and policies employed in New York work elsewhere? Under Timoney's leadership crime declined in every major category especially homicide. A similar decrease not only in crime but also in corruption marked Timoney's tenure in his next position as police chief of Miami a post he held from 2003 to January 2010.<i>Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities</i> documents Timoney's rise from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. This fast-moving narrative by the man <i>Esquire</i> magazine named America's Top Cop offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities.Policy makers and academicians have long embraced the view that the police could do little to affect crime in the long term. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this notion. <i>Beat Cop to Top Cop</i> tells us how.<b>John F. Timoney</b> is former Chief of Police City of Miami.The City in the Twenty-First Century2010 | 352 pages | 6 x 9ISBN 978-0-8122-4246-1 | Cloth | $24.95t | £16.50 World Rights | Biography LawShort copy:<i>From Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities</i> documents John Timoney's rise from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx right up to his role as police chief of Miami.