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In Breaking Rank Norm Stamper (2005) writes as a “pioneering public servant and former top cop of Seattle, WA, USA. He makes powerful arguments for drug decriminalization, abolition of the death penalty, and radically revising approaches to prostitution and gun control. Opening the book with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Stamper educates us to the violent world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. While supporting the importance of policing in America, Stamper exposes a troubling police culture of racism, sexism, and homophobia that is still pervasive within the 21st century force (adapted from book jacket).”

Published by Nation Books, ISBN: 1-56025-693-1