BIBFRAME Work

Title

The new public safety

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Fields, Shawn E. (author)

Subject

• Public safety--United States (LCSH)
• Social problems--United States (LCSH)
• Police--United States (LCSH)
• Police abolition movement--United States (LCSH)
• Law enforcement--United States (LCSH)
• Civil rights--United States (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

LCC: HV550.U6 .F54 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"This book celebrates current reform efforts to remove police from places where they do not belong while raising the alarm about reflexively installing powerful nonpolice personnel without proper restraints and protections for the vulnerable among us. Public safety is better served when experts in medicine, mental health, houselessness, and behavior intervention address these noncriminal issues, leaving police the bandwidth to focus on serious violent crime. A growing number of cities and counties agree. Funding for these "alternate responders" has skyrocketed since 2020, and thousands of nonpolice crisis intervention units deploy each day across America. "Help not handcuffs" has become the new rallying cry"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the unintended consequences of "defund the police" -- Why are police everything everywhere all at once? -- The new public safety -- Search and seizure without police -- Brutality without police -- A safer public safety -- A constitution that serves "we the people" -- Conclusion : an urgent plea for common ground.

Authorized Access Point

Fields, Shawn E. The new public safety

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:08.992464+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24012651

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc