Talking blues: The police in their own words

By Roger Graef

Book Overview

A collection of interviews with over 500 police officers of every rank from all over Britain and Northern Ireland. The 1980s have changed policing, often out of recognition, and "Talking Blues"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0002724367
• ISBN13: 9780002724364
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Collins Harvill
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Police culture distilled empathically

anyone familiar with this format of book will know roughly what to expect. graef has interviewed many many police-officers, both men and women, from many districts in the UK for his book. Those who are not familiar with this kind of interview collection have been missing out.What makes 'Talking Blues' unusual is Graef's nose for the revealing statement. these are not just people's words slapped onto pages when lurid, they tell a distinct story taken as a whole. One feels able to sympathise with the thousands of officers that walk our streets and also advise on government policy. From drunks on a Saturday night to the riots of the eighties, the police become more than anonymous figures in blue suits. 'talking Blues' is by any account an interesting read, even casually. However, its power to add colour to any study of politics, organisational/management theory, or psychology is what makes it worth tracking down.