Rethinking the Police

An Officer's Confession and the Pathway to Reform

Daniel Reinhardt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0612-2 (ISBN)

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A former police officer tells the story of how his eyes were opened to the hard truth that dehumanization, systemic racism, and brutality are endemic to the policing culture of the U.S. He then offers a hopeful new model not based in dominance and control with concrete suggestions for procedural justice and community policing.

"For decades, I refused to accept what was painfully obvious for so many: police brutality against minorities is not an issue of a few isolated and disconnected incidents but a systemic condition of a compromised institution."
Daniel Reinhardt spent twenty-four years as a police officer near Cleveland, Ohio. He was long unaware of the ways the culture of the police department was shaping him, but gradually, through his own experiences as a police officer and through the mentorship of Black Christians in his life, his eyes were opened to a difficult truth: police brutality against racial minorities was endemic to the culture of the system itself.
In Rethinking the Police, Reinhardt lays out a history of policing in the United States, showing how it developed a culture of dehumanization, systemic racism, and brutality. But Reinhardt doesn't stop there: he offers a new model of policing based not in dominance and control but in a culture of servant leadership, with concrete suggestions for procedural justice and community policing.
Our society has long been stuck in cultural and ideological battles about police brutality and the police force's broken relationship with our communities. Rethinking the Police promises to start a more hopeful conversation.

Daniel Reinhardt (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) served as a police officer near Cleveland, Ohio, for twenty-four years. After retiring from the police force, he was assistant professor at the Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry at the Memorial Unit, a prison in Rosharon, Texas. Currently, he is professor of applied ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Yvette.

Introduction: Awakening to the Problem

Part I: Drifting Away from Peace Toward Abuse and Brutality

1. History of the Police: From Promising Beginnings to Abuse

2. Police Culture: Social Distance, Dehumanization, and Abuse

3. Toxic Leadership and the Hierarchy of Power: Contributing to a Dangerous Culture

4. Systemic Racism and Brutality Through Police Culture and Ethics: Zero-Tolerance Policing

Part II: The Pathway Back to Servanthood and Peace

5. Servant Leadership and Followership: Foundations for Police Leadership

6. Leadership Synthesis: Creating a Servant-Oriented Model for Police Leadership

7. Transforming Through Leadership: Creating a New Culture of Servanthood

8. A New Strategy of Peace: Procedural Justice and Community Policing

9. Impacting a Hurting Demographic: Building Positive Identities

Conclusion

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2023
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5140-0612-X / 151400612X
ISBN-13	978-1-5140-0612-2 / 9781514006122
Zustand	Neuware