Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Brooklyn BookBeat
Simon & Schuster’s publication of Joe Domanick’s “Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing” could not be more timely, coming at the height of a national conversation about public trust in policing. The ubiquity of video and social media has only intensified this dialogue. While the book’s subject is ostensibly the LAPD, the issues and questions it raises apply to every police department from Ferguson to Baltimore to New York.
In fact, the book contains many deep connections to New York, the most noteworthy being the hiring in 2002 of William J. Bratton to be chief of the LAPD. (In his acknowledgements, Domanick writes that Bratton is “second only to the LAPD as a character in ‘Blue.’”)