For February we're reading this first person account of a professor's experience as a reserve police officer. Hope you can join us. New members welcome; feel free to try a session. .
Book: Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City by by Rosa Brooks
Online: Please email Ashley Kellner for Zoom link
Date & Time: Sunday, February 20 6:30pm
Book summary:
A radical inside examination of policing in modern America, from a Georgetown University law professor turned reserve police officer In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world--and whether that world can be changed.
“Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post