Human Rights Policing Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Introduction

Suicide-by-Cop: A Code Two Call in the New Orleans Police Department

• Introduction
• Human Rights in Extraordinary Times
• Goals of the Book: What Do We Want? Human Rights! Who’s Gonna Help Protect it? Cops!
• Who Are We?
• Reflections on 30 Years of Policing: Thoughts for the Reader
• Points of Departure
• What Happens Next
• Suggested Audios, Videos, and Activities

• Introduction
• Cops of the World, Unite (Under Human Rights Policing)!
• Human Rights: Words without Meaning, Bark without Bite
• The Nature and Meaning of Human Rights
• Three Types of Human Rights Policing Social Interactions
• Examples of the Three Human Rights Policing Social Interactions
• Evolution of Human Rights
• The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Summary of Human Rights
• Human Rights from the Perspective of Police Officers
• Suggested Readings and Activities

• Introduction
• Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
• Defining Power
• From Where Does Power Derive?
• Human Agency Versus Determinism
• Human Agency and Policing: A Story from Inside the N.O.P.D.
• Threats to Human Rights Policing: Moral Panics and the Manufacturing of Folk Devils
• Black Mirror: "Men Against Fire"
• Suggested Activities

• Introduction
• An Invitation to the Sociological Imagination
• The Sociological Imagination
• Using the Sociological Imagination
• Verstehen: The Actor’s Point of View
• The Stories We Tell
• The Relationship between Storytelling and Human Rights
• Storytelling and the Double Consciousness
• Thirty Years of Policing a Foreign Community
• Suggested Activities

• Introduction: Soulful Policing
• The 1920s Chicago School Sociology: Getting Dirty
• Tongue Speakers and Religious Fanatics in Brownsville, Brooklyn
• Down and Out in New Orleans: Homeless Shelters of the City
• Sex Workers, Policing, and City Life: Getting to Know Community Members
• The Gay Business Community of the New Orleans French Quarter
• Phil the Maître D’
• A Police Chief’s Perspective on Getting to Know the Community and Human Rights
• It's About Policing with the Soul
• Reimagining Policing into the Future
• Suggested Videos and Activities

• Introduction
• Brief Chapter Summaries
• On Kindness
• The Blasé Attitude and Human Rights Policing
• Developing the Blasé Attitude: Notes from the N.O.P.D.
• Policy Suggestions
• Final Thoughts and Ideas: The Future of Policing and Human Rights
• Suggested Assignment

Biography

Peter Marina holds a Ph.D. in sociology from The New School for Social Research in Manhattan, serves as Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice, and is author of Down and Out in New Orleans with Columbia University Press.

Pedro Marina holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Sociology at the University of New Orleans and is a retired police lieutenant from the New Orleans Police Department with 30 years of law enforcement experience in the Big Easy.

"Marina and Marina’s book offers over three decades of practical experience and innovative research toward centralizing human rights within criminal justice and policing specifically. Human Rights Policing: Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century could not be more salient in these extraordinary times. While many of us imagine impending crisis on a global scale, this book—through tremendous insight, experience, and intellectual humility—offers ethical ways forward for policing and the education of future practitioners. I cannot personally imagine a more innovative or realist approach to the complex condition of modern policing with the baggage of colonialist histories during this historic moment of growing social disparities. Both Peter and Pedro’s voices ring out clearly throughout this text. One voice has the insight and articulation of well-travelled ethnographer while the other adds decades of policing experience, respectively. This book offers insightful re-conceptualizations for policing and education in criminal justice/criminology that few (if any) books currently contain."
Edward LW Green, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL

"Professor Marina and retired N.O.P.D. Lieutenant Pedro Marina bring a fresh, innovative, and exciting perspective on human rights and policing. Their book offers a paradigm shift away from the ‘This is the way we have always done it,’ mentality currently keeping police agencies from evolving. This book is a must-read for police chiefs and law enforcement executives looking for a way to jump-start their agencies’ community engagement philosophy and improve understanding of the role human rights plays in policing."
Ron Camacho, Chief, Chambersburg Pennsylvania Police Department

"Human Rights Policing is a collaboration between a retired lieutenant from the New Orleans Police Department, with 30 years of experience in law enforcement, and an academic sociologist known for his longstanding commitment to challenging the systemic issues that have plagued US policing. Their shared mission is to put forward a new model of policing that they call ‘Human Rights Policing,’ which is based upon the United Nations’ definition of human rights, which includes the right to life, liberty, security of person, freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, and many other protections. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with the use of real-life examples, this book provides a practical guide for the implementation of Human Rights Policing. While it will undoubtedly prove to be essential reading for all those working in law enforcement, it also functions as a useful and thought-provoking contribution to the debate on the future of policing in this country."
Jayne Mooney, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York