Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW

Bob Peirce and Kathy O’Toole have more experience than almost anyone else in America and Europe in designing reforms for policing and implementing them successfully. This book is a superb analysis of how to do the job even in the most difficult situations, recognizing from the very beginning that good policing is not something which is done to a community but is the outcome of the aspirations of citizens in every open society, working with them to get the best outcomes. Peirce and O’Toole show how you can get the best protection for those aspirations and human rights. Their approach is the key to good policing everywhere. It offers answers to many of the most difficult political questions that will confront us in the years ahead. -- Chris Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, former Governor of Hong Kong and Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland
Kathy O’Toole and Bob Peirce have written an important, impactful and timely book that addresses the urgent reform needs of the police profession and the growing demands for these reforms by the public, the media, the politicians and indeed the police themselves. I have had the opportunity over the years to work on numerous occasions with both of them on policing issues in the United States and Great Britain. They are both consummate professionals whose advice and recommendations are an important addition to the raging debates about police reform and how best to return the policing of democracies to the Peelian Principles of Policing first promulgated by Sir Robert Peel in 1829 when the Metropolitan Police Service was created to police London. Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW is a valuable addition to the reform debate and the many crises that policing is now facing. As the authors’ state "Out of crises comes opportunity". Now is the time to embrace that opportunity and their book provides a clear vision about how to do it. -- Bill Bratton, former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Commissioner of the Boston Police Department and twice Commissioner of the New York Police Department.
Kathy O'Toole and Bob Peirce have written an important and timely work on police reform. They bring years of international experience and expertise to help the reader better understand the complexity of policing, past and present. They search for solutions by understanding past lessons and looking forward to the challenges awaiting us in the 21st century. Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW is a must-read for every current and future police leader. -- Charles H. Ramsey, former Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department and Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia