After some looking, I have yet to find a police academy with a required reading list.
POST (Peace Officer Standards & Training) has a police leadership development reading list, but it's a bit anemic and even counterproductive in places. It includes The Killer Angels (which, while a great book, belongs on a soldier's reading list, not a cop's.).
It also includes (Gugh) On Killing but not On Combat. Therefore it keeps Grossman's thirty-year-old data that he still fucking preaches live AND his bullshit Sheepdog theory, but doesn't include On Combat's in-depth discussion of stress reactions and aftermath of a violent encounter.
Bare minimum, I'd add in Sebastian Junger's Tribe as well as Terry Pratchett's Watch series (Guards! Guards!, Jingo, Thud, Night Watch, and Snuff at the very least).
POST (Peace Officer Standards & Training) has a police leadership development reading list, but it's a bit anemic and even counterproductive in places. It includes The Killer Angels (which, while a great book, belongs on a soldier's reading list, not a cop's.).
It also includes (Gugh) On Killing but not On Combat. Therefore it keeps Grossman's thirty-year-old data that he still fucking preaches live AND his bullshit Sheepdog theory, but doesn't include On Combat's in-depth discussion of stress reactions and aftermath of a violent encounter.
Bare minimum, I'd add in Sebastian Junger's Tribe as well as Terry Pratchett's Watch series (Guards! Guards!, Jingo, Thud, Night Watch, and Snuff at the very least).
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