Rethinking the Police: An Officer's Confession and the Pathway to Reform

Reinhardt, Daniel Eugene

ISBN 10: 151400612X / ISBN 13: 9781514006122

Published by IVP, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking the Police: An Officer's Confession and the Pathway to Reform
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151400612X
• ISBN 13: 9781514006122
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

<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>

About the Author

<p>Daniel Reinhardt (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) served as a police officer near Cleveland, Ohio, for twenty-four years. After retiring from the police force, he was assistant professor at the Heart of Texas Foundation College ofMinistry at the Memorial Unit, a prison in Rosharon, Texas. Currently, he is associate director of student life and applied ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Yvette.</p>