Finally, the dark cloud created by government officials who gave only lip service to the urgent need for police reform has been challenged. Using the bright light of truth, this book serves to illuminate the struggle and resolve by a community in the battle for accountability and transparency. Thank Professor Dalton for bringing the history to life!

Fred Brewington, longtime civil rights attorney, and co-chair of the Nassau County Community Collaborative Taskforce

A thoughtful and unflinching examination of the powerful forces holding back police reform, focused on one of the most fascinatingly troubled law enforcement regions in the U.S.

Gus Garcia-Roberts, investigative reporter, ProPublica, and the author of Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice and the Rise of a Dirty Cop

Deliberating Police Reform offers an ethnographic deep dive into the undemocratic side of deliberation-an incisive account that highlights both the necessity of passionate, contentious engagement in democracy and the dangers of stifling it through the managerial logics of technocratic forms of deliberation.

Hans Asenbaum, associate professor and director at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy at the University of Canberra, author of The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2023), and co-editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy