Barry Friedman, Reporter on Principles of the Law, Police Investigations, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, and director of the Policing Project at NYU School of Law, reviewed two newly published books in The New York Times.
The two books both present analysis of policing in the current environment, but each presents a different argument.
In The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, urges a return to aggressive tactics like stop-and-frisk.
In Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform, Malcolm Sparrow, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, doesn’t see any evidence that the more aggressive version of policing works.
Professor Friedman is the author of the upcoming book Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission.
Read the full book review online [subscription may be required].