The Crime Fighter: How You Can Make Your Community Crime Free

The is the BEST book about effectively fighting crime that I have ever read. Every Cop nationwide should read it, study it, and implement Maples' statagies. The Bad Guys will never know what hit em. God bless Jack Maple for his inspiration. Rest in peace Jackster.

This is the best book on policing that I have ever read. It is not some boring textbook written by some college professor who has never made an arrest or even ridden in a police car. This book is informative, humorous and entertaining. Maple lays out a crime fighting strategy in an easy-to-understand, common sense manner. He also gives a few tips on the tactics to be employed using his strategy. The main point of his strategy: Map out the crime in your jurisdiction by location and time and deploy your forces to those locations. "Put cops on dots" and then hold people accountable for the crime rates in their areas of responsibility. It is a simple idea but it has hardly been employed by police agencies in the United States. Maple tells police managers how to proceed and how to get past problems in implementing the strategy. He then gives the reader tactics to use to catch even more crooks, including systematically turning each arrest into an opportunity to find other criminals, drug dealers and illegal guns.This book should become part of every police academy curriculum and added to every police promotional reading list. It is really that good.

Jack Maple's book is both informative and fun reading. with his professional experience as a valuable resource, Maple's book is full of examples of how to lower crime and boost police/community morale. this book explains how to simplify the complicated and bureaucratic approach that many police departments take.maple's book raises many management theories that are important for any successful organization to be familiar with. (i.e. micromanaging vs. macromanaging in " The One Minute Manager", to a degree,and the breaking ball plus theory, a relative of the broken windows theory and other common sense theories) Maple also expounds on the need for managers to be leaders and not coaches and how leaders must allow for innovation in the lower ranks while letting subordinates know their bosses are familiar with their plight. Maple asserts that settling for less can become a cancer on any organization. for example, Maple argues that 10% of cops do 90% of the crime fighting. The Crime Fighter is an educational " page turner". To read it is to enjoy it.

I loved this book; a very fast read and just the excitement and real life action you would hope for. Not a ton of exposition just a great story. Something I would recommend to everyone. I am going to try and write to Mr. Maple, via Random House, and send him a gift of thanks. Kevin

For those of us in the policing business who grew up being taught that police performance made little difference to criminals and the crime rate, Maple's book is an ice cold beer in the middle of the desert: wonderful and refreshing. He has an important message not only to empty suit police executives, but also to city managers and local elected officials who spend and enormous amount of tax dollars without having a clue is it produces any meaningful results in terms of public safety. By monitoring crime patterns daily, using timely intelligence, used rapidly to develop strategies and deploy people in the right places, the 20 percent of the criminals who commit 80 percent of the crime can be tracked and captured. Unfortunately, most police departments are evaluated on their ability to respond efficiently, solve an occasional high profile crime, and talk in vague terms about community policing an partnerships. What Maple has shown us is that what police departments need are leaders who know how to lead and manage, but also know about street policing and about investigating crime. This book not only challenges police leaders, but also provides them instruction on how to lead the crime fighting efforts of their police departments. The enormous costs of municipal policing might be justified if more departments followed some of Jack Maple's advice. This book is a "must read" for those in the police business who believe the primary mission of police departments is to fight crime and the number one goal is fewer victims.