Breaking Rank
A Top Cop's Exposé
of the Dark Side of American Policing

Norm Stamper

Awards & Other Publications

"Stalking on the Islands." Guest Opinion, The Islands' Sounder. January 23, 2008

"What Will it Take." Guest Editorial, Real Change. February 6 -12, 2008

The H.B. "Bing" Spear Award for Excellence in Control and Enforcement, awarded every two years by the Drug Policy Alliance, December 8, 2007, New Orleans.

"Death Penalty Wastes Money, While Failing to Reduce Crime." Op-ed, San Jose Mercury News, November 19, 2007

"Law Enforcement: Imagining a New Structure." Chapter in The Challenge to Lead: Issues in Law Enforcement Leadership. The Center for American and International Law. 2007

"Arellano-Felix Arrest Just One Battle in America's Failed Drug War." Guest Columnist, L.A. Daily News, 8/26/06

"Stopping Drug Violence." San Diego Union-Tribune Op-Ed, August 4, 2006

"How Legalizing Will End the Violence," AlterNet. July 28, 2006

"Let Those Dopers Go." Op-ed, Los Angeles Times. October 16, 2005

"Keep Your Mouth Shut on This One, Chief." Penthouse. July, 2005

"Snookered in Seattle: The WTO Riots." Seattle Weekly, June 1-7, 2005

Removing Managerial Barriers to Effective Police Management. Police Executive Research Forum, Washington D. C. 1992

Films Featuring Norm

"The Union: The Business Behind Getting High," selected for 2007 Winnipeg Film Festival, Vancouver, B.C. Film.

"Private Violence: The Movement Against Battering in America," Kit Gruelle, Cynthia Hill, Steven Channing, Durham, NC. In production.

"Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey", by Novia Scotia filmmaker Connie Littlefield, to be completed October, 2006, for the National Film Board of Canada

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), 12-minute program endorsed by Walter Cronkite (currently available at www.leap.cc), 2006

Emmy

"Life Behind the Badge: Norm Stamper Speaks Out." The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Seattle Northwest Regional Chapter (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana). Public Affairs — Special or Series. Won by Liv Faris, Producer, Tiffany Dedeaux, Editor for June 3, 2006.

Journalism Award

Society of Professional Journalists' 2006 Excellence in Journalism Competition for Government/Political Reporting: 1st Place to J. Kingston Pierce, Washington Law & Politics, for "Stamper Has His Say"