| Sumario: | This review examines *Counterinsurgency Strategy—A Path to Effective Policing*, which argues that COIN (counterinsurgency) military strategies can inform police reform by aligning with community-oriented policing (COP) and emphasizing legitimacy. The book addresses the U.S. police legitimacy crisis linked to racially discriminatory practices but is critiqued for its disorganized structure, selective use of COIN examples, and insufficient engagement with police militarization literature and alternative reform models like democratic policing. The author highlights the book’s limited critical analysis of police culture, militarization’s negative impacts, and the complexities of applying military COIN tactics to domestic policing contexts where police-community relations are strained. Overall, the work is noted for its focus on legitimacy but is seen as lacking in empirical support and nuanced consideration of existing scholarship on policing reform.
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