An inconvenient cop : my fight to change policing in America / Edwin Raymond, with Jon Sternfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raymond, Edwin, 1986- author.

Sternfeld, Jon, author.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Raymond, Edwin, 1986-.

New York (N.Y.). Police Department--Officials and employees--Biography.

Police--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Whistle blowers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Police misconduct--New York (State)--New York.

Police--United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]

Summary:

"From the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the NYPD, a political memoir that exposes the brokenness of policing from both outside and inside the system During the workday, Edwin Raymond is on the beat as a ranked lieutenant in the New York Police Department. When the uniform comes off, he takes on a very different role: the lead plaintiff in the largest-ever civil rights lawsuit against the very police force he serves. This is the true story of one of our country's most important whistleblowers against police injustice, told in his own words. Raised in a poverty-stricken, largely immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn and driven toward law enforcement by the hope of being a positive influence in his community, Raymond quickly learned that the problem with policing is a lot deeper than merely "a few bad apples"--the entire mechanism is set up to ensure that racial profiling is rewarded, and there are weighty consequences for cops who don't play along. Offering a rare, often shocking view of American policing through the eyes of an insider to the system, Raymond pulls back the curtain on the many injustices woven into the NYPD's training, data, and practices--all of which have been repackaged and repurposed by police departments across America. At once revelatory and galvanizing, An Inconvenient Cop is a whistleblower account unlike any other--a book that courageously bears witness to and exposes institutional violence, all while presenting a vision of radical hope, making the case for a world in which the police's responsibility is to the people, not to their arrest numbers" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: One. The line

Two. My mother's face

Three. The academy

Four. The 2 train to Florida

Five. Immaculate perception

Six. Black boys

Seven. Racist math

Eight. The invisible line

Nine. High school with guns

Ten. Being Seen

Part II: Eleven. Conditions

Twelve. Problem cop

Thirteen. Pushing through

Fourteen. Officer Lil Wayne

Fifteen. Hardheaded

Sixteen. On the record

Seventeen. The unheard

Eighteen. Front lines

Nineteen. Takedown

Part III: Twenty. Raymond v. The city of New York

Twenty-one. The brass

Twenty-two. Noise

Twenty-three. Public enemy

Twenty-four. The men in the arena

Twenty-five. The people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Raymond, Edwin, 1986- Inconvenient cop

ISBN:

9780593653166

0593653165

OCLC:

1385323786

Publisher Number:

99994878152