The Black and the Blue by Matthew Horace

As he introduces his readers to the city, he recounts conversations with three drivers of the car-shares he uses to get around town. On occasion, the pace slows, most notably during Horace's chapters on police misconduct and efforts at police reform in Chicago. Timely and provocative, sheds light on what truly goes on behind the blue line.'-Jacket.Horace's book moves swiftly, interspersing personal experiences with interviews with cops on the beat police commanders from New York, Chicago, and other cities activists public officials and victims of police shootings. Horace uncovers what has sown the seeds of rage and violence.

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. 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. Object Details author Horace, Matthew Harris, Ron (Journalism professor) Subject Horace, Matthew 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 - Epilogue 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. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.

The Black and the Blue by Matthew Horace