The Status of Women in Policing. An excellent work on gender and policing was recently published: Gwendolyn L. Gerber, Women and Men Police Officers: Status, Gender, and Personality. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001). In addition, the National Center for Women and Policing Website is a handy resource that includes a link to the publication discussed in this chapter: http://www.womenandpolicing.org/.
Community Policing. There are two excellent works on community policing that are readily available: George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Ross, Fixing Broken Windows (New York: Free Press, 1996); Susan L. Miller, Gender and Community Policing: Walking the Talk (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999).
Police Paramilitary Units (PPUs). Type SWAT into your Internet search engine, and about 4,000,000 different Web sites will pop up. Most common are descriptions of individual PPUs, or complaints about SWAT activities. Two excellent articles are: Peter B. Kraska and Victor E. Kappeler, "Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units," Social Problems 44 (1997): 1-18; David B. Kopel and Paul M. Blackman, "Can Soldiers Be Peace Officers? The Waco Disaster and the Militarization of American Law Enforcement," Akron Law Review 30 (1997): 619-159.
N.Y.P.D. The New York City Police Department is by far the largest law enforcement agency in the United States, and much has been written about it. Some of the more recent works include: William Bratton, Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic (New York: Random House, 1998); Eli B. Silverman, NYPD Battles Crime: Innovative Strategies in Policing (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999); and James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto, NYPD: A City and Its Police (New York: Henry Holt, 2000).
Terrorism and Policing. A number of interesting articles have been published on this topic in Crime & Justice International: Willard M. Oliver, "The Era of Homeland Security: September 11, 2001 to . . . ," Crime & Justice International (March/April 2005): 9-17; James F. Pastor, "Terrorism & Public Safety Policing," Crime & Justice International (March/April 2005): 4-8; and William M. Oliver, "The Homeland Security Juggernaut: The End of the Community Policing Era?" Crime & Justice International (March/April 2004): 4-10.
