Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption, and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation's Police. This item is unavailable.Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption, and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation's Police

BOOK DESCRIPTIONRepression of protest. Racial profiling. Excessive force. Misconduct. Corruption.In this hard-hitting book, Chief David Couper talks about his career, the police subculture, and his 20-year transformation of police in Madison, Wisc. The book is autobiography, history, and a police improvement manual in which he outlines the seven steps police must take in order to overcome the four obstacles which have "arrested" their development: anti-intellectualism, violence, corruption, and discourtesy. When these obstacles are dismantled and the seven steps followed, we will have police who are smart, restrained, honest, and courteous. Couper writes with authority, wisdom, and experience.

This is a book that could only be written after I developed some distance from my 33 years as a cop and chief of police. I have always championed for a better, an improved police. This is my last word on the subject. Police improvement has been arrested. It's up to you and me to set them free so they can be the defender of our rights and the protectors of those less-fortunate in our society. A great nation deserves a great police. It can and will happen!