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Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities Pub. Date: 5/19/2010 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

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"Timoney... takes us inside the world of police work in three big cities: New York, Philadelphia, and Miami. He shows us metropolitan cops in action, their strategies, their sensitivity to public opinion, and most fascinating of all to me, the political games they have no choice but to play. Believe me, you have a treat on your hands." "If he had thought of him first, Damon Runyon would have invented John Timoney. He emerges from these pages as a cop's cop and a chief's chief, with a bit of a poet mixed in.---Ray Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner" "Bringing John Timoney to Miami is the best decision I made. His tenacity cleaned up our Police Department; his humanity made him my friend.---Manny Diaz, Mayor of Miami, 2001-2009" "Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood in Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. 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. In 1998, Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. Philadelphia became the great laboratory experiment: Could the systems and policies employed in New York work elsewhere? Under Timoney's leadership, crime declined in every major category, especially homicide. 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. 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. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this notion. Beat Cop to Top Cop tells us how.

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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. Born in Dublin, Timoney moved to New York in 1961 as a child and joined the NYPD after graduating from high school. He describes patrolling the streets during the turbulent late ’60s, when protests and civil unrest ripped at the city’s social and political seams. Picking up a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees along the way, Timoney rose steadily through the ranks, working directly for famed police commissioners like Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton. An advocate for community policing as the way the NYPD addressed “quality of life” issues (e.g., vandalism and truancy) that are often precursors of major crimes, Timoney helped develop and refine departmental policies on everything from the use of deadly force to race relations. 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. Both the ugly side of police work—particularly corruption—and the achievements of his beloved NYPD are showcased in this intriguing look at what it takes to fight crime. (June)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812242461
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 5/19/2010
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 625,939
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century Series
Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

John F. Timoney is former Chief of Police, City of Miami.

Foreword Tom Wolfe Wolfe, Tom

Introduction: Be Careful What You Wish For 1

PART I NEW YORK CITY

1 Getting on the Job 9

2 The South Bronx 19

3 From Sergeant to Management 55

4 Captain Timoney 73

5 Chinatown 89

6 Back to Headquarters Under Dinkins 110

7 The Bratton Era Begins 141

8 CompStat, Crowd Control, and the "Dirty Thirty" 165

9 The Beginning of the End 186

10 Interregnum 199

PART II PHILADELPHIA

11 Philadelphia, Here I Come 207

12 Pugnacious Philly 239

PART III MIAMI

13 Paradise Found: Miami 265

14 Free Trade, Free Speech, and the Politics of Policing 291

Conclusion: Where We Were, Where We Are 322

Index 333

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Posted December 6, 2011

Very good purchase!

Good read even if one is not in law enforcement field. Author nails content material.
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