Prologue… … … 04

[Part 1: Class is a thug]
1. Of the class, by the class, for the class… … … 12
Executives and non-executives, personal insulting separatism/loyalty to superiors over loyalty to the nation/fragmentation strategy of lower-ranking positions

Section 2: Irrationality, Inefficiency, and Unprofessionalism… … … 21
Police officers who do their job well even without a budget/There are no answers on the ground/Pathological meddling

Section 3: Performance-based pay... 35
Statistical manipulation blinded by performance/Show! Show! Show!/Citizens are performance, crackdowns are results

4. Servant to the government, master to the people… … … 46
Prosecutors' Prey: Police Station Officers Investigate the Location of Unpaid Fines/Police Officers Collect Fines
Won/If you don't have money, beat yourself up/Prevent the emergence of Big Brother/Servants of all government departments

Verse 5: Put a muzzle on… … … 62
30 Years of Muteness / The Ordeal of the Chief and Chadol, Who Became Gung-ye / The Gangster Riot at Gil Hospital in Incheon and the Inspectorate's Distortion of the Truth / Lee Mu-yeong's Expansion of the Inspectorate and the Birth of In-House Thinking

[Part 2: The Police Again]
Section 1: Police officers are not machines… … … 78
The fight for a 40-hour workweek/Efforts to improve the treatment of police officers/Constitutional appeals to police work systems and the enactment of the Police Officers' Labor Standards Act/Police hold candlelight vigils/

Section 2: High-ranking officials, their own connections… … … 111
The Police Mutual Aid Association, a Playground for High-ranking Officials/Unlocking the Police Mutual Aid Association/Commoners' Rebellion: The Police Commissioner's Recommended Chairman Rejected/

Section 3: The police officer is a citizen in uniform, Polnetian… … … 121
When anger builds, it breaks through / Prelude to the repression of Polnetian: An open letter to the police chief /

Section 4: Investigative Powers, the Unfinished Fight… … … 135
October 19, 2007, 10:00 AM / The launch of the Participatory Government and the beginning of the adjustment of investigative powers / The meeting of police and prosecutors on equal footing, the historic public hearing on the adjustment of investigative powers / The September 15th Legislative Public Hearing that demonstrated police unity / The prosecution's refusal to direct the escort of suspects and the three-year and eight-month legal battle / Lee Taek-soon's inaction and Cho Hyun-oh's mistake

Section 5: The Sand Grain Lawsuit Against the Press… … … 154
MBC Current Affairs Magazine 2580: "Women Who Went to Macau" / MBC Newsdesk: "Police Are Loose" / CBS Nocut News: "Women in Their 20s Gang Raped Due to Police's Sluggish Response" / MBC Camera Deployment: "Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Card Scandal"

Verse 6: An Unforgettable Episode… … … 168
Quasi-appeal and re-appeal against the prosecution's decision not to request a search and seizure warrant/The chief of police opposed the author's appointment to the Gangwon Provincial Police Agency/The ban on the use of CCTV at police stations for checking employee attendance/The Central Police Academy trainees on the verge of collective expulsion/The two-person dormitory exchanged for a golf course at the police academy/The days when he was the chief of Gangneung Police Station/Drinking restrictions at Gyeongpo Beach/The murder case that made me realize the value of field experience once again

[Part 3: Suggestions for the People's Police]
… … … 188
Recognition of police officers' worker status/Introduction of an autonomous police system, conversion of police station chiefs to elected positions/Guaranteeing the independence of police duties

Epilogue… … … 201

[Appendix: Constitutional Petition, Petition for Amendment to the State Compensation Act, and Statement of Reasons for Reappeal]

- Declaration of war on police reform
- Exposes the undemocratic behavior and human rights violations of the police leadership.

The police is an organization that maintains the safety of citizens and social order, but it is not well known for its human rights and order within the organization.
The author, who has been at the forefront of police reform as a “citizen in uniform” for 31 years, has published “The True Face of the Police” (published by Good Land), a declaration of war for police reform.

Most books published so far about the police either talk about their duties as apostles of justice who suppress crime or are memoirs written by former high-ranking police officers.
However, 『The Real Face of the Police』 is not a book of this self-praise nature, but rather the first book to clearly expose the flawed culture and practices of the police organization hidden behind flashy packaging.
"The True Face of the Police" is divided into three parts.
Part 1, "Class is Gangster," exposes the undemocratic behavior of the police organization, especially the police leadership, both inside and outside the organization, and how they oppressed police officers in the field.
The behavior of high-ranking officials who reign like kings with thorough classism, the 'pathological meddling' of police officers who try to do things beyond their authority just to catch the government's eye, and the unfair dismissal of police officers for criticizing the leadership, all of these things make readers unable to contain their shock and anger.
Part 2, "Again, We're Police," is a record of the struggles and reforms that the author and other police officers on the scene achieved against the police leadership.
This book contains examples of the fruits and frustrations of the blood and sweat of field police officers, including improving the working environment for field police officers suffering from extremely high-intensity work, eradicating various types of corruption that were carried out through the connections of high-ranking officials, and even the "Sand Grain Lawsuit" that sought to reveal the truth about field police officers against distorted reports by the media.
In particular, readers will be able to feel a strong sense of empathy for the need for police reform through the appearance of the leadership who, rather than protecting the members of the organization from external attacks, took the lead in suppressing and oppressing them.
And in the final part 3, ‘Suggestions for the People’s Police,’ we present ways to reform these police organizations.
This is a suggestion for becoming a citizen's police force that provides proper public security services to citizens, rather than an authoritarian or uniform police force, or a police force obsessed with political bias and performance-based pay.
As the title, ‘The True Face of the Police’ suggests, this book reveals the shameful aspects of the police that the general public has not known about.
The author hopes that readers will understand the true face of the police and the police leadership, who use class and vested interests as weapons to suppress and exploit field officers and seek advancement.
The author concluded by saying, “I hope that this book, however insufficient, will serve as a small catalyst for reforming not only the police organization but also the authoritarianism and abuse of power that is prevalent in our society against the socially vulnerable.”