..... is the apathy of the public, and this is intended to arouse you to the fact that proper police protection is your responsibility too. It goes of course beyond that- ""the agency for law enforcement is a soft underbelly of the body politic"" and courts, communities, politicians are also answerable for the laxity of the police; the honest cop can be corrupted by corruption; organized crime and commercialized vice are further determinants. And this Inquiry (Deutsch has done several others-on mental health, juvenile delinquency, etc.) probes not only how lawless is our law-enforcement but covers police work from abuses within the system to the advances of recent years- particularly the great reforms of August Vollmer, and the improvements in police training and techniques of today... Quentin Reynolds' Headquarters is a much more lively introduction to the cop on the beat and likely to cushion some of the shock effects of this aggressive alert.