Volume 24, Number 14 · September 15, 1977
Safety Last
By Andrew Hacker
Thinking About Crime
by James Q. Wilson
Vintage, 260 pp., $1.95 (paper)
New York Cops Talk Back
by Nicholas Alex
Wiley, 225 pp., $13.25
Police: Streetcorner Politicians
by William Ker Muir Jr.
University of Chicago Press, 306 pp., $15.00
The Growth of Crime: The International Experience
by Leon Radzinowicz, by Joan King
Basic Books, 342 pp., $11.95
Officer Down, Code Three 60176)
by Pierce R. Brooks
Motorola Teleprograms (4825 North Scott St., Schiller Park, Illinois, 266 pp., $7.95
More has been said, written, and muttered about the police than any other group of public servants. This emphasis is understandable. Schoolteachers and social workers provide services. We look to the police for physical survival. Three centuries after Thomas Hobbes, we still live in 'continual fear and danger of violent death.' Yet even with the police, few of us living in large American cities feel fully protected. Ought we to expect more safety than we are currently receiving?
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