Walking With the Devil: The Police Code of Silence - The Promise of Peer Intervention: What Bad Cops Don't Want You to Know and Good Cops Won't Tell You. - Hardcover

Quinn, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0975912585 ISBN 13: 9780975912584

Publisher: Quinn and Associates Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Wallking With the Devil is required ethics reading in law enforcement academies and college programs across the United States. It  is the foundational resource for the Peer Intervention training featured in the New York Times regarding New Orleans Police Department (EPIC) and the Police Executive Research Forum.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Quinn is a retired Minneapolis Police sergeant. From 1975 to 1999 he served in both uniform and plain clothes in a number of assignments including internal affairs investigator, supervising uniformed precinct officers, and supervising high profile, highly decorated undercover operations. He supervised the Minneapolis Police Academy from 1994-1999 where he was responsible for ensuring that the training complied with all state and federal laws as well as department policy. He was the Deputy Director of Minnesota Police Corps Program where he was responsible for the development and implementation of a 22-week residential academy for police officers and state patrol troopers. He is a community faculty member of Metropolitan State University where he co-teaches a course in “Best Practices in Law Enforcement Ethics and Leadership” He is the Chairman of the Inver Hills Community College Law Enforcement Advisory Board.

Mike is the CEO of the International Ethics and Leadership Training Bureau, LLC. He provides ethics training and consulting to police agencies acrosss the United States In 2016 he contracted with the New Orleans Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice in developing, providing and evaluating a peer intervention and accountability program dubbed “EPIC – Ethical Policing is Courageous©.”  EPIC has been featured in the New York Times and the Police Executive Research Forum. He is proud to be called husband, father, and grandfather.

From the Back Cover

Michael W. Quinn s new book, Walking With the Devil: The Police Code of Silence, is a must-read for every ethical person involved with the legal system. Quinn writes in vivid street-officer language, compelling police recruits and our attention with gritty adrenaline-laced descriptions of the life-and-death, slippery with blood and sweat survival-mode situations in which gut instincts amygdala hijackings propel even the most ethical officers into difficult battles with the Code of Silence, the implicit rule that an officer never snitches on another officer. When he has our attention, he leads us through the terrible internal struggles of honesty and ethics. Quinn is bluntly honest about officer culture and institutional pressures toward corruption, including creative report writing and testilying. Quinn guides his readers into a gut-level understanding of real-life ethics. He addresses the criminally-serious problems detailed in his book, describing outstanding successes of two police units he supervised, that refused to use the Code, and debunks the top ten Myths of Policing. The Police Code of Silence is a profoundly powerful text book. When studied with the dedicated seriousness of a police recruit at the Academy, Michael Quinn s teaching builds and strengthens ethics beyond abstract intellectual knowledge, into the very fibers of one s being. Even in those of us who believe ourselves to deeply ethical, Quinn s book can awaken and nurture a deeper understanding of ethics as a vital part of life in every moment.

Clara NiiSka

Guest Reviewer

National Lawyers Guild Chapter News

Edition details

• Publisher: Quinn and Associates Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975912585
• ISBN 13: 9780975912584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Willett Ed.D. Margot