Street Stories
Book description
Detectives work the streets - an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence - to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system - semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney…
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1 author picked Street Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
How should theorizing about the police be reconciled with the practical reality of policing?
Jackall’s book illustrates the difficulty of answering this question by drawing on his years of fieldwork with New York City police detectives, illuminating the tension between theory and the rough-and-tumble world of police work.
It is one thing to ponder the justification of, say, deceptive practices from within the confines of the ivory tower and quite another to face that question in an interrogation room with someone suspected of a heinous crime.
The book is an engaging study of life on the street.
From Luke's list on the cluster-f*ck we call policing.
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