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Joe Domanick (February 10, 1943) Joe Domanick is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and commentator, described in the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most outspoken of the breed . . . a muckraking journalist . . . [who] continues to pound away at police officials . . . and other civic center hotshots. In pen and in person he's got a tough and hungry manner that makes them uncomfortable." He is a Senior Fellow in Criminal Justice at the University of Southern California Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism; he was formerly a journalism professor and senior fellow at USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism.

Domanick's book "Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing" (2016) was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. Among his other works, "To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams" won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Nonfiction “true-crime” book; "Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State" has been assigned reading at Stanford Law School, and was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Domanick's work and reporting has been cited by academics, politicians, and authors as an influential source regarding criminal justice and policing reform and policy.

He resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter, the journalist Andrea Domanick.

Published works

 * Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing Simon & Schuster, 2016
 * Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America S Golden State University of California Press, 2005
 * To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams Pocket Books, 1994
 * Faking it in America: Barry Minkow and the Great ZZZZ Best Scam Contemporary Books, 1989