PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books...backed by a solid accumulation of empirical evidence ... Where others might shy away from the implications of this line of thought, though, Vitale pursues them to their logical conclusion: in context after context, public safety is enhanced, and the public interest is best served, when the police are eliminated from the equation ... He concludes by articulating \'a larger vision that questions the basic role of police in society,\' though one wishes he hadn’t waited until the last seven pages of a 228-page book to develop it ... The End of Policing’s great strength lies in demonstrating that if the shape of American policing is historical, it is also contingent ... Ultimately, however, though Vitale comes closer to getting it than Ferguson, both authors miss something central: the reason why a clearly injurious policing paradigm continues.
