Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of archaic police tactics. Yet it was not until seven years into his service - when Horace found himself face down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer - that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Timely and provocative, sheds light on what truly goes on behind the blue line."-Jacket.During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. 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.
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