NCJ Number
173977
Date Published
1996
Length
287 pages
Annotation
This book describes the career of Chief Willie L. Williams, Los Angeles Police Department, and suggests ways citizens can participate in anti-crime efforts.
Abstract
The book chronicles how Williams worked his way from rookie patrolman in 1964 to become commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department in 1988 and, in 1992, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. It includes candid remarks about some of Williams's most public and high-profile cases, including those of Michael Jackson (sexual molestation), Heidi Fleiss (prostitution), and O.J. Simpson (double murder), and details his efforts to decentralize the Los Angeles Police Department and involve management and the community in solving problems of crime. The books describes in detail community policing, how it has been effective, who participates, how it works, and where improvements can still be made. In addition, the book gives practical advice on what each citizen can do to work with the police in taking back Americaþs streets. Index