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A review by zoes_human
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace, Ron Harris
informative
4.0
What is life like in a black body behind the thin blue line? What does one see from there?
Matthew Horace is a law enforcement veteran with 28 years of experience at federal, state, and local levels. In The Black and the Blue, he examines the toxic aspects of police culture—the racism, the sexism, the "code of silence"—that allow brutality to flourish. I was most impressed at his willingness to openly confess to his own culpability within the system and his regret for the same. He looks not only at what is wrong, but what is necessary to fix the problem, not just within law enforcement but within our culture as a whole.
On the whole, this book provides a valuable perspective of a pervasive problem.
Matthew Horace is a law enforcement veteran with 28 years of experience at federal, state, and local levels. In The Black and the Blue, he examines the toxic aspects of police culture—the racism, the sexism, the "code of silence"—that allow brutality to flourish. I was most impressed at his willingness to openly confess to his own culpability within the system and his regret for the same. He looks not only at what is wrong, but what is necessary to fix the problem, not just within law enforcement but within our culture as a whole.
On the whole, this book provides a valuable perspective of a pervasive problem.