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By Norm Stamper

Opening with a robust letter to former Tacoma police leader David Brame, who shot his estranged spouse sooner than turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, mystery international of family abuse that law enforcement officials must never merely navigate, yet which a few additionally perpetrate. Former leader of the Seattle police strength, Stamper is going directly to divulge a troubling tradition of racism, sexism, and homophobia that continues to be pervasive in the twenty-first-century strength; then he explores how such prejudices may be addressed. He finds the hazards and temptations that law enforcement officials face, describing in gripping element the split-second life-and-death judgements. Stamper attracts on classes realized to make robust arguments for drug decriminalization, abolition of the demise penalty, and extensively revised ways to prostitution and gun keep an eye on. He bargains penetrating insights into the "blue wall of silence," police undercover paintings, and what it skill to kill a guy. And, Stamper supplies his own account of the realm exchange association debacle of 1999, whilst protests he was once in command of controlling grew to become violent within the streets of Seattle. Breaking Rank unearths Norm Stamper as a courageous guy, a pioneering public servant whose impressive existence has been devoted to the provider of his community.

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