Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812242467 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Very interesting book when combined with Bratton and Kelly books DMM Very interesting book when combined with Bratton and Kelly books about NYPD one gets an interesting perspective on the reduction in crime.. "Not the Autobiography You May Be Expecting" according to Frederick S. Goethel. Police work is as much art as it is science. From reading people to quickly figuring out solutions to very difficult problems, it takes a special type of person to make it from the lowest rungs of a police department to the highest rungs. John Timoney is one of the few people that has the skills to operate within large police departments and make significant changes along the way.Timoney has not written a typical autobiography, and for that I am thankful. He does discuss various aspects of his career, starting when he was a police trainee and extending through his time as the Chief of the Miami PD. While detailing his career he does includ. Outstanding Chief Timoney does an excellent job outlining, not only his career, but also providing a vivid picture of the best in law enforcement along with the struggles of being a top cop. He holds nothing back and yet he emerges as a true professional.
After retiring from the NYPD in 1996, Timoney spent four years as police commissioner of Philadelphia before becoming Miami's chief of police in 2002, retiring in 2009. He describes patrolling the streets during the turbulent late '60s, when protests and civil unrest ripped at the city's social and political seams. From Publishers Weekly From a rookie in the streets of the South Bronx to police chief in Miami, lifelong cop Timoney reflects on a career that put him at the center of many recent debates and advances in law enforcement. An advocate fo
Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Beat Cop to Top Cop tells us how.. This fast-moving narrative by the man Esquire magazine named "America's Top Cop" offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street, detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities.Policy makers and academicians have long embraced the view that the police could do little to affect crime in the long term. In 1998, Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. A similar decrease not only in crime but also in corruption marked Timoney's tenure in his next position as police chief of Miami, a post he held from 2003 to January 2010.Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities documents Timoney's rise, from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, including CompStat, that led to historic declines in nearly every category of crime. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this no
Timoney is former Chief of Police, City of Miami. . John F