The book is divided into 13 chapters, with selected sub-chapters: (1) What Are We Doing Out There? (consequences of vague goals, conflicts between goals); (2) The Limits of the Law (policing a free society, freedom and due process); (3) Curbside Justice (the Dirty Harry syndrome, the big excuse); (4) Defining Police Power (exhortative, reciprocal and coercive power); (5) The Paradoxes of Coercive Power (dispossession, detachment, face, irrationality, the police officer as victim); (6) Police Work Is All Common Sense; (7) The Downside of Police Discretion (community-based policing and discretion); (8) Violence and Survival; (9) Stereotyping and Making Mistakes; (10) Defending Fort Apache (the police subculture); (11) Corruption and Paramilitarism (the cyclical nature of isolation); (12) Some Thoughts on Avoiding the Paradoxes; and (13) The Great Challenge (take pride in doing the "world's toughest job"). Bibliography