Joe Domanick

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Joe Domanick (February 10, 1943) is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and commentator who has been writing about criminal justice, Los Angeles, and the LAPD since the 1980s. His articles, features, and op-ed pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Los Angeles Magazine, Playboy, and numerous national publications. He has been a columnist for the LA Weekly; a public affairs radio host for KPFK; an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California; a Senior Fellow at USC’s Institute of Justice in Journalism; and the Associate Director of the Center on Media, Crime, and Justice at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).

Domanick has written four books:

• Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (Simon & Schuster, 2015), which was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection.

In his review of the book, New York Times editor Mark Horowitz wrote that, “Domanick gets everything right ... His dramatic account of the Los Angeles Police Department’s recent fall and rise is steeped in his city’s rich history, its fraught racial and ethnic conflicts and its complex demographics."

a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. In 2016, Charlie Beck, then chief of the LAPD, bought and distributed Blue and Domanick's To Protect and To Serve to the Los Angeles Police Commission and his Command Staff. In 2018 both, works were optioned by Entertainment One.

• Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State (University of California Press, 2004) has been assigned reading at Stanford University Law School, and was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle.
• To Protect and To Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams (Pocket Books, 1994), which won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book.

• Faking it America: Barry Minkow and the Great ZZZZ Best Scam (Contemporary Books, 1989) was bought by New Line Cinema for a feature film.

Domanick holds graduate degrees in social science from Hunter College, CUNY; education and sociology from Columbia University; and broadcast journalism from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. Before becoming a journalist, he worked for 13 years as a public school teacher in New York’s South Bronx and in Los Angeles, where he has lived since 1974.

Published works

• Domanick, Joe (2016-08-23). Blue. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4110-3.
• Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America S Golden State University of California Press, 2004, 2005
• To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams Pocket Books, 1994, Figueroa Press, 2003
• Faking it in America: Barry Minkow and the Great ZZZZ Best Scam Contemporary Books, 1989