Police Craft, Adam Plantinga
Police Craft, Adam Plantinga
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Police Craft
What Cops Know About Crime, Community and Violence

Author: Adam Plantinga

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/12/2019


Synopsis

A veteran police officer gives his thoughtful, balanced views on police shootings, racial profiling, community relations, and every other aspect of policing—and he'll change what you think about the police.

From the author of the acclaimed 400 Things Cops Know, Police Craft is a thought–provoking and revelatory examination of policing in America, as seen by a working police officer. Adam Plantinga, a seventeen–year veteran sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department, gives an inside view of the police officer's job, from handling evidence and conducting interrogations to coping with danger, violence, and death. Not hesitating to confront controversial issues, Plantinga presents the police officer's views on police shootings, racial profiling, and relationships between police and the community–and offers reasoned proposals on what the police and the public can do better.

Hard–boiled, humorous, and compassionate, Plantinga wrestles with the complexities and contradictions of a job he loves in which he witnesses so much suffering. Transcending today's strident pro–cop/anti–cop rhetoric, Police Craft will give every listener a greater respect for the police and greater understanding of the job they do.

About Adam Plantinga

Adam Plantinga holds a BA in English with a second major in Criminology/Law Studies from Marquette University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1995. He has been a police officer for seventeen years, and is currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department. Plantinga's first book, 400 Things Cops Know, received rave reviews from star crime writers such as Lee Child, Edward Conlon, and Joseph Wambaugh and was hailed as "the new bible for crime writers" in the Wall Street Journal. Plantinga lives in the Bay Area with his wife and daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Evan on March 28, 2019

As a lefty brown person, most of the time I come upon cop related reading, it's news that warns me to avoid and distrust the police. They kill us for no reason and get off scot free! This book was a great peek at the other side, into the every day lives of the police. Plantinga lays out his tale in......more

Goodreads review by akhivae on January 23, 2021

I've recently become interested in understanding poverty in North America (Canada/USA) and as part of that I'm looking to read books that are written by people with 'on the ground experience' and those from with diverse backgrounds (not just journalists and academics). Going in my opinion of the pol......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 02, 2019

South Bend, Indiana, home of presidential candidate Mayor Pete, has had a fatal police shooting of a man who allegedly threatened him with a knife. Sadly, the officer did not turn on his body camera. This incident has disrupted racial relations in South Bend and has had national repercussions as a p......more

Goodreads review by Vinnie on February 11, 2019

I seldom keep books anymore, but as a crime writer, I'm putting Police Craft on my bookshelf beside Plantinga's first book, 400 Things Cops Know. Both are invaluable reference books. But they are also eminently readable. When I bought Police Craft, I didn't have a chance to start it for two weeks be......more

Goodreads review by Corey on May 15, 2024

Seargent Plantinga delivers a punch-packed primer on the police perspective of criminal law.Y'all need to check this out. Adds considerable knowledge to the field that may have been otherwise reserved for the insiders of the craft. Though certain subjects could have been explored with greater detail......more