PositiveFinancial Times (UK)The book questions the way policing is done, while illustrating how hard it is to do the job ... Brooks is compelling on the everyday details of the work ... Brooks is careful to underline that crime remains a painful, frightening burden to the people who live where it is prevalent. She sympathises, too, with the stress that can turn cops cynical ... Yet she also indicts police training and culture for overemphasising the job’s danger, making officers too ready to shoot.