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The black and the blue : a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
Title:
The black and the blue : a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
Summary:
"Matthew Horace was a law enforcement officer at the federal and local levels for twenty-eight years, working in nearly every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service, when Horace found himself with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police, government officials, and law experts around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of America's police culture and policies, which he concludes is an "archaic system" built on "a toxic brotherhood." In this deeply revelatory book, Horace dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and provides fresh analysis of issues that drive disproportionate numbers of black men to be killed by police and incarcerated in cities such as Ferguson, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York City, Tulsa, and Chicago. Horace uncovers what has sown the seeds of rage and violence. Timely and provocative, [this book] sheds light on what truly goes on behind the blue line."--Jacket.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
The boogeyman -- Being black in blue -- Who matters most? -- The system -- The conspiracy -- We can't be made whole -- A culture of criminality -- Culture versus strategy -- A murder in Chicago -- The cover-up -- Damage control -- The journey forward -- At the end of failing systems --
Physical Description:
xvi, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Personal Subject:
Publisher:
Hachette Books,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9780316440080

9780316440097
Publication Information:
New York : Hachette Books, 2018.

©2018
Call Number:
363.2 HORACE
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