Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-293) and index.
Contents
Police work -- A police career -- Street crime -- The war on drugs and other addictions -- Race -- Crime fighting as myth -- Intelligence operations -- Legal issues --NYPD -- Police problems -- Managing -- Managing technology -- The national scene -- Sweeps, roundups, and other abuses -- The press -- Police unions -- The internal climate -- Cops : individually and en masse -- Reforms : without and within -- Issues across the landscape -- Self-improvement and management -- Looking back.