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. 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. "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 TodayĬomes from an insider who respects his profession yet is willing to reveal its flaws.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. "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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