Doing Right: From Prosecutor to Reformer: A Journey Through Crime, Corruption, Complacency and Change

What do you do when the system you serve becomes the problem?That question followed Jeff Schlanger through forty years of public life. It has no easy answer. Doing Right is the honest accounting of a man who kept asking it anyway.Schlanger began as a Manhattan prosecutor, building organized crime cases in an era when names like John Gotti and the Westies still carried genuine menace on the streets of New York. He understood crime and punishment up close — not from textbooks, but from the work itself.But the cases that defined his later career weren't about prosecuting criminals. They were about confronting institutions. When the LAPD's Rampart scandal became the defining police corruption crisis of a generation, Schlanger helped lead the federal monitorship tasked with forcing change.When the NYPD needed someone to build a risk management framework from scratch, they turned to Schlanger — making him their first Deputy Commissioner for Risk Management.In Doing Right, he reflects on what four decades inside crime, corruption, and reform taught him. About power. About institutional failure. About the rare and difficult discipline of true justice in a world that makes it easier to look away.This is not a book about villains. It is a book about choices — and about what it costs to make the right ones when the stakes are highest.Why this memoir demands your attention:One of the most compelling true crime memoirs written from inside law enforcement and institutional reformA firsthand lens on criminal justice, corruption, and accountability in America's most powerful institutionsOrganized crime prosecuted, corruption officer roles navigated, and reform hard-won across four decadesA meditation on crime and punishment that goes far beyond courtrooms and verdictsEssential reading for anyone who believes true justice is worth fighting forAdd to Cart. Some stories change the way you see the system. This is one of them. Read more