Rethinking the Police

<p><strong><em>Foreword</em> INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist</strong></p><p><strong>A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture</strong></p><p>Our society has long been stuck in cultural and ideological battles about police brutality and the police force's broken relationship with our communities. <em>Rethinking the Police</em> promises to start a more hopeful conversation.</p><p>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.</p><p>In <em>Rethinking the Police</em>, 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.</p>