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right , little else is possible .
The Profession is both a searching examination of the path of polic- ing over the past fifty years , for good and also for ill , and a master class in transformative leadership
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Bill Bratton was never brought into a police department to maintain the status quo ; wherever he went – from Boston in the ’ 80s to the New York Police Department in the ’ 90s to Los Angeles after the beating of Rodney King to New York again in the era of unchecked stop-and-frisk – root-and- branch reinvention was the order of the day and he met the challenge .
There are few other positions on Earth in which life-and-death stakes com- bine with intense public scrutiny and turbulent political crosswinds as they do for the police chief of a ma- jor American city , even more so after counterterrorism entered the mix in the twenty-first century .
Now more than ever , when the role of the police in society is under a microscope like never before , Bill Bratton ' s authority on the subject of improving law enforcement is pro- foundly useful .
A riveting combination of cop stories and community involvement , The Profession presents not only a fasci- nating and colorful life at the heights of law-enforcement leadership , but the vision for the future of Ameri- can policing that we sorely need .
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“ Bill Bratton has gone from street cop to America ’ s police commissioner . There is no more authoritative voice on policing in America . The lessons learned in this book are invaluable .” — Jeh Johnson , former Secretary of Homeland Secu- rity
" From no matter what angle you look at the debate of how we police ourselves , this book is timely and vitally import- ant . Half memoir , half philosophy , this is the bible on police reform and rec- onciliation with community . Told by a man who changed policing in three ma- jor cities , The Profession by Bill Bratton brings deep and new understanding to what it means to protect and serve — from both sides of the badge .” — Michael Con- nelly , author of The Law of Innocence .
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