Chris McKenzie
- 1
- review
- 0
- helpful votes
- 11
- ratings
-
Black in Blue
- Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation
- By: Carmen Best
- Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Chief Carmen Best has spent the last 28 years as a member of a big-city police force, an institution where minorities and women have historically found it especially difficult to succeed. She defied the odds and became the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Leadership is Lonely
- By Kindle Customer on 11-07-21
- Black in Blue
- Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation
- By: Carmen Best
- Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher
Unconventional Author: Conventional Ideas
Reviewed: 02-26-22
Carmen Best is an interesting figure to me as she was Chief of Police during the Seattle CHOP/CHAZ & George Floyd riots. The book can't decide what it want's to be. Is it a recounting of that period of her life? Cultural or Social commentary? Or a book about Leadership?
Unfortunately, though I have much personal admiration for Chief Best, her ideas in these latter areas are rather conventional. As a black woman police chief, I was hoping for more from her about how to resolve the various cultural tensions we have about policing and the black community. Instead she gave credence to the same platitudes that led to her resignation.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!