I really liked Rosa Brooks' last book, so I pre-ordered her new one, Tangled Up in Blue, Policing the American City. Haven't started it yet, as I'm still finishing Midnight in Chernobyl. She and Peter Moskos, who I follow on Twitter, had an interesting exchange. Here's a quote from a Georgetown interview:
It’s incredibly hard to be a good cop. This really came home to me once I started patrolling.
By underfunding other social services we’ve created a society in which cops are all-around first responders to everything from shootings, stabbings, domestic assaults and burglaries to mentally ill people walking down the middle of the street talking to themselves. And no one really has the skills to handle all those very different kinds of situations well.
In the interview she uses my favorite phrase: "It's complicated".
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