A review by nuhafariha
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis

4.0

What I enjoyed most was the way the authors drew connections between past and present legal cases and delved into legal socialism, or the the way prejudices in the legal system infiltrate social circles and inspire certain behaviors and mindsets. In particular, I liked how the authors traced historical laws against nonblack POC such as Asian Americans as the foundation for present racial-based laws pointing to consistent inability of the US judicial system to correct its racial predilections. The stats in this collection of essays gets repetitive. And for good reason, they are horrifying and necessary to point out again and again, just like it's horrifying that a book like this has to be written over and over again.