Worked closely with the department's Problem
Oriented Policing Team and other regional task forces developing actionable intelligence on gang member and drug ring activity; in addition to writing profile analysis of serial violent offenders.
Throughout the book, Balko demonstrates how bad policymaking at federal, state, and local levels — from the SWAT
teams instituted by the Los Angeles
Police Department in the 1960s, to Bill Clinton's launch of the Community -
Oriented Policing program, to the Section 1033 program that has equipped school cops with assault rifles — has led to innocent lives being endangered even within their own homes.
Responses to the Problem of Child Abuse and Neglect in the Home Center for Problem -
Oriented Policing (2017) Outlines law enforcement considerations for an effective response to child abuse and neglect in the home and includes a section on multidisciplinary
teams and their response to child maltreatment allegations.