Rethinking the Police

<P><B><I>Foreword</I> INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist</B></P><P><B>A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture</B></P><P>Our society has long been stuck in cultural and ideological battles about police brutality and the police force's broken relationship with our communities. <I>Rethinking the Police</I> promises to start a more hopeful conversation.</P><P>Daniel Reinhardt spent twenty-four years as a police officer near Cleveland Ohio. He was long unaware of the ways the culture of the police department was shaping him but gradually through his own experiences as a police officer and through the mentorship of Black Christians in his life his eyes were opened to a difficult truth: police brutality against racial minorities was endemic to the culture of the system itself.</P><P>In <I>Rethinking the Police</I> Reinhardt lays out a history of policing in the United States showing how it developed a culture of dehumanization systemic racism and brutality. But Reinhardt doesn't stop there: he offers a new model of policing based not in dominance and control but in a culture of servant leadership with concrete suggestions for procedural justice and community policing.</P>