Policing the police.(To Protect and Serve How to Fix America's Police)

While performance management can be a good, when it is abused, as in New York City (whose model was copied throughout the democratic world), it creates a numbers-crunching system that dehumanizes officers and citizens alike.[...]our founding fathers feared King George, and thus we have the Bill of Rights, a federalist system, and many other protections; using the D.O.J. to enforce standards stretches the idea of federalism.John A. Eterno is a professor, associate dean and director of graduate studies in criminal justice at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, N.Y. He is co-author of The Crime Numbers Came: Management by Manipulation and editor of The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices (CRC Press).