The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in Americas Law Enforcement Audiobook (Free)

Longlisted for the Pencil/John Kenneth Galbraith Honor for Nonfiction

‘A MUST-READ FOR ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE US.’-CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS

During his 28-year job, Matthew Horace rose through the rates from a officer operating the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some from the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive handling high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet about The Dark and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Offences, Racism, and Injustice in America¿s Law Enforcement it was not really until seven years into his program- when Horace discovered himself encounter down on the ground with a gun directed at his mind by a white fellow officer-that he fully known the racism seething within America’s law enforcement departments.

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. He dissects some of the nation’s most extremely publicized law enforcement shootings and areas to explain how these systems and strategies have hurt the people they serve, uncovering the mistakes which have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration prices, and an epidemic of violence.

‘Horace’s authority while an experienced official, as well while his obvious integrity and courage, provides the book using a gravitas.’-THE WASHINGTON POST

‘The Black and the Blue is an affirmation of the critical need for offender justice reform, even more urgent because itcomes from an insider who respects his profession yet is willing to reveal its flaws.’-USA TODAY