RT Book
T1 The new public safety: police reform and the lurking threat to civil liberties
A1 Fields, Shawn E. 1981-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931762864
AB "This book celebrates current reform efforts to remove police from places where they do not belong while raising the alarm about reflexively installing powerful nonpolice personnel without proper restraints and protections for the vulnerable among us. Public safety is better served when experts in medicine, mental health, houselessness, and behavior intervention address these noncriminal issues, leaving police the bandwidth to focus on serious violent crime. A growing number of cities and counties agree. Funding for these "alternate responders" has skyrocketed since 2020, and thousands of nonpolice crisis intervention units deploy each day across America. "Help not handcuffs" has become the new rallying cry"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV550.U6
SN 9780520395992
SN 9780520396005
K1 public safety : United States
K1 Police abolition movement : United States
K1 Police : United States
K1 Law Enforcement : United States
K1 Civil Rights : United States
K1 Social Problems : United States