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Police Craft

What Cops Know About Crime, Community and Violence

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Police Craft

By: Adam Plantinga
Narrated by: Steve Marvel
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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 17-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.

©2018 Adam Plantinga (P)2019 Tantor Criminology Social Sciences Crime Funny Thought-Provoking Police Craft
Hilarious Storytelling • Insightful Police Experiences • Perfect Narrator • Riveting Career Depiction • Relatable Details
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The stories were really interesting and the entire thing was made better by the narrator. I'm glad I took a gamble and got this book. I couldn't stop listening.

Great book!

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This should be required reading before people scream to defund police. I’m not saying it will change their mind, just make them a little more informed.

Pertinent to Today

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I really enjoyed this book, it did a great job of depicting a police officers entire career in a ferry digestible, but riveting way!

Definitely keeps you thinking!

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funny, interesting, and very practical. recommend this book especially if you are interested in law in forcement

great

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The performance was boring to be quite honest. My mind kept drifting away and I would have to rewind parts again and again

Good book, bad performance

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Great insight with a sense of humor. I would recommend this audio book to everyone, including LEO’s and first responders. Great book.

Great listen

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There is a wealth of relatable detail in this book regardless what department you serve with.

Accurate

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I enjoyed the stories and the writing. The narration felt a little dry and rigid at first, but after sticking with it a few chapters the voice grew on me and I could hear subtle emotions like deadpan humor coming through. It was worth getting used to the style to hear the rest once the narration clicked on with me.

Give it a few chapters.

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This was such a surprise book for me. Not at all what I expected but so much more. The author has a dry sense of humor and great stories. The reader of the book is perfectly suited to the reading of the book. I highly recommend this book and if you knew how rarely I recommend books, you would likely be impressed with the fact that I recommend this book!

Very interesting and informative while keeping a great sense of humor and compassion.

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Great content and hilarious sarcasm. Only issue I had with it was the narrator was very robotic sounding, so the sarcasm wasn't delivered with the same hilarity. Still worth listening to, I just wish the same narrator from the first book 400 things cops know did this one, too.

Great sequel to his 400 things cops know book

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