Book Review of Black In Blue by Nicholas Alex

Book Review

Black In Blue

A Study of the negro Policeman

by Nicholas Alex

Appleton-Century-Crofts

Copyright 1969

210 pages

Intro. Criminal Justice

December 2, 1996

Nicholas Alex, assistant professor of sociology at The City University of New York, holds a Ph.D. from the New domesticate for Social Research and a B.S. from the Wharton School. He was formerly a enquiry assistant with the Russell Sage Foundation, an instructor at Adelphi University, and has had dressings experience in his academic modifiedty-the sociology of professions and occupations-while an industrial engineer in the aircraft industry, later as business manager of the Walden School. This is his first book.

        In this book Alex made an effort to examine the peculiar problems of Negro policemen who live in an age which has not yet settle to problem of inequality in an assertedly democratic society. He pull heavily on the reflections of forty-one Negro policemen who made on the face of it to me the difficulties involved in being black in blue. Alex was relate with the ways in which the men were recruited into the police, the nature of their relations in regard to their immediate clientele, their counterparts, and the rest of society.



In the broadest terms, the book examines the special problems that Negro policemen face in their efforts to reconcile their race with their work in the present framework of American values and beliefs.

        The research for the study was based on intensive interviews collected over a period of eleven months, from December 1964 to October 1965. During that time the causality talked with Negro police engaged in different types of police specialties, and men of different rank and backgrounds. Alex was interested in preserving their anonymity, and substituted regulation numbers for names. The language in which their thoughts were expressed is unchanged.

        Most of the...

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