I am sickened by it yet feel helpless to make the changes needed. I'd have to be deaf and blind not to know that profiling, railroading, beating, and even outright murder is taking many innocent black lives in our country. He tells it like it is and is joined by many others in his field who back him up and tell the tale. What's the difference you say? This book which deals with encounters between Black Americans and our men and women in Blue, (law enforcement officers), sometimes Black or Hispanic but most often White, causes what I can only think of as a bruise, commonly described as a black and blue, one that never fades.Īuthor Matthew Horace certainly has the credentials to present this no nonsense, no holds barred expose what his subtitle names rampant injustices and racism this inequality practiced by those we count on to uphold the law. The Black And The Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement might have been named Black and Blue. "The Black and the Blue is an affirmation of the critical need for criminal justice reform, all the more urgent because itĬomes from an insider who respects his profession yet is willing to reveal its flaws." - USA Today "Horace's authority as an experienced officer, as well as his obvious integrity and courage, provides the book with a gravitas." - The Washington Post He dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and communities to explain how these systems and tactics have hurt the people they serve, revealing the mistakes that have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration rates, and an epidemic of violence. 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. 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.
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