The New Public Safety : Police Reform and the Lurking Threat to Civil Liberties.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields, Shawn E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public safety--United States.

Public safety.

Police abolition movement--United States.

Police abolition movement.

Police--United States.

Police.

Law enforcement--United States.

Law enforcement.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Social problems--United States.

Social problems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

Efforts to reduce reliance on police have gained momentum since 2020, driven by a growing recognition that public safety is better served when addressed by experts in medicine, mental health, houselessness, and behavior intervention. But this rush to reimagine public safety carries a serious risk: a long history of abuse exists within social welfare systems, and the laws protecting us from police who perpetrate these types of abuses largely do not apply to EMTs, social workers, and other nonpolice responders. While commending efforts to remove police from places they do not belong, The New Public Safety: Police Reform and the Lurking Threat to Civil Liberties raises the alarm on the dangers these reforms can pose if undertaken without proper restraints and protections and offers practical, achievable solutions to address these threats.

Contents:

Introduction : the unintended consequences of "defund the police"

Why are police everything everywhere all at once?

The new public safety

Search and seizure without police

Brutality without police

A safer public safety

A constitution that serves "we the people"

Conclusion : an urgent plea for common ground.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-39601-4

OCLC:

1522808329