Blue--#24 finished

The rest of the title is The LAPD and the battle to redeem American policing.  The author looks at the LAPD and the power of the chief of police.  He looks at the chiefs over time and shows how slow they were to react to changing times from the 1960s onward.  How they were basically run as a type of military and their response to gangs were to arrest more rather than work with people & try to keep them out of gangs.  The Rodney King beating and then the acquittal of the police officers and the riot that happened after that, played a big role in forcing the changes to the dept.  Also talked about the OJ Simpson arrest & how badly the police performed in collecting the evidence as well as how the African American community in LA wanted to strike back at the racist cops there.  The book was written in 2015 so a few years dated but the end of the book basically was all of the positives that were occurring and how much better the LAPD was working with the community now.  I have never been to LA & really other than what I have read from afar, don't know much about these issues.  This book did a great job of providing information and underlying causes as to what was happening there. I really enjoyed this book.

There are no copies in PBS but since I don't want to mail off anything, will wait to post it at some later date.