Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People

ISBN-13: 9780367684136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 294 str.

Natasha Pratt-Harris

Opis

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed. It combines traditional models commonly taught in policing courses with new approaches to teaching and training about law enforcement in the U.S. from the Black lens.

Recenzje

"On occasion, a book's title is so bold that the reader is eager to read it to see if the author can back up the title's assertion. Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris' Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People is a book that not only proves what the title says, but gives compelling reasons why police training should be placed in the hands of Black people. This timely book should be studied by police academies across the nation during a period when policing is being re-examined by policy makers and those who train its officers It is also a must have handbook for citizens truly interested in police reform. This is the book I've been waiting for on law enforcement in America!" - Raymond Arnold Winbush aka Tikari Bioko, PhD, Research Professor and Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University.

 "As a thirty-six-year criminal justice professional and the President of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, I endorse the Book "Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People." Natasha Pratt Harris gives a compelling argument to support the need for encompassing training for police officers that include instruction in the communities they serve. Her assertion that black trainers will be more adapt at performing such actions is detailed in this book. Her research was conducted with over thirty authors who contributed their views on Blacks and police training and acknowledges the need for transformative change in the tools used to prepare police officers." - Terri McGee, President National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice.

O autorze

Natasha C. Pratt-Harris is an Associate Professor and the immediate past Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program and current Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and (Criminology & Criminal Justice) at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. She is also a trained statistician and methodologist. Dr. Pratt-Harris supervises criminal justice interns, teaches statistics, research methods, juvenile justice, criminology, and criminal justice courses, where she addresses "dis-proportionality" at various stages throughout the juvenile and adult criminal justice system. She co-teaches a Police and Society course based on a Policing Inside-Out Model (Dr. Muhammad Experience) where HBCU students, community members, and law enforcement are enrolled for 15 weeks to collectively address police community relations.