Volume 45, Number 18 · November 19, 1998
The Blue Revolution
By Michael Massing
Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
by William Bratton, with Peter Knobler
Random House, 329 pp., $25.00
Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System
by Susan Estrich
Harvard University Press, 161 pp., $19.95
Politics, Punishment, and Populism
by Lord Windlesham
Oxford University Press, 278 pp., $35.00
The continuing decline in the nation's crime rate—in 1997, it fell for the sixth consecutive year—has helped to draw attention to a small group of police chiefs and crime experts who are widely believed to have brought it about. They include William Bratton, New York's former police commissioner; Jack Maple, who served as Bratton's deputy and who is now advising the New Orleans police department; the political scientist James Q. Wilson; George L. Kelling, coauthor of the recent book Fixing Broken Windows,[1] and Herman Goldstein, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and the author of Problem-Oriented Policing.
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