The current crisis in policing can be traced to failures of reform.
Sparrow surely is right to condemn policing directed only at crime rates rather
than community satisfaction. -The New York Times Book Review
In the past two years, America has witnessed incendiary milestones in the poor
relations between police and the African-American community: Ferguson,
Baltimore, and more recently Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas.
Malcolm Sparrow, who teaches at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is a
former British police detective, argues that other factors in the development of
police theory and practice over the last twenty-five years have also played