The War on Cops, Heather Mac Donald
The War on Cops, Heather Mac Donald
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The War on Cops
How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Author: Heather Mac Donald

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2016

Synopsis

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest fifty cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened.

This book expands on Mac Donald's groundbreaking reporting on the Ferguson effect. It deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males.

The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of "mass incarceration." A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. In fact, Mac Donald argues, no government agency is more dedicated to the proposition that "black lives matter" than today's data-driven, accountable police department.

About Heather Mac Donald

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

A non-practicing lawyer, Heather has clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and has been an attorney-adviser in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a volunteer with the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City.

The New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Association conferred its Civilian Valor Award on her in 2004. She was awarded the 2008 Integrity in Journalism award from the New York State Shields. She was also the recipient of the 2008 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration from the Center for Immigration Studies and the 2012 Quill & Badge Award for Excellence in Communication from the International Union of Police Associations.

Her writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, the New Republic, Partisan Review, the New Criterion, Public Interest, and Academic Questions.

Heather received her BA in English from Yale University, graduating with a Mellon Fellowship to Cambridge University, where she earned her MA in English and studied in Italy through a Clare College study grant. Her JD is from Stanford University Law School.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Twobchelm on July 03, 2020

I truly don’t know who would have the passion to want a career in law enforcement these days. While continuing to lower the bar for criminals and handcuffing the police more and more as the crime rate continues to increase. The author has done extensive research and presented statistics that are ala......more

Goodreads review by Gail on July 24, 2016

****...a work of fact vs. fiction everyone must read!**** Heather Mac Donald, award-winning journalist, non-practicing attorney and political commentator, uses statistics, fascinating personal stories and in-depth investigations to prove police involved shootings of blacks are not racially motivated......more

Goodreads review by Jon on August 06, 2016

Outstanding methodology and well-researched.......more

Goodreads review by Dav on August 05, 2020

. The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe By Heather Mac Donald, published 2016, about 250 pages. Synopsis: Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 citi......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 09, 2016

The timing of me reading this book is uncanny. Jefferson Parish (County) is a suburb of New Orleans and just yesterday, the day I started reading the book, a Deputy was shot in the back and murdered by a perp who said he did not want to go to jail for violating his probation for carrying a weapon. S......more

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