Norm Stamper

Norm Stamper was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle's police chief. He is the author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2015) and, to be published in June, To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police (both by Nation Books).

Chicago PD protest

Is There Hope for the Chicago Police Department? Is There Hope for the Chicago Police Department?

Yes, but only if we abandon the failed menu of governmental responses to policing scandals. Here’s what we should do.

May 13, 2016 / Norm Stamper

Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street

Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street

As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have only become more militarized.

Nov 9, 2011 / Norm Stamper

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