A review by bookwormmichelle
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes and Racism in America's Law Enforcement and the Search for Change by Matthew Horace

5.0

I really liked this discussion of policing and race. As a longtime cop himself, the author appreciates the jobs cops do and realizes how hard it is; he has sympathy for that. But his discussion of the obvious race problems in policing is wide-ranging, encompassing his own stories and many of the stories behind the "headline" problems. He discusses how hard it is to change a department culture, and the problems that can occur. He has sections from a wide range of OTHER police officers, from normal guys to police chiefs. I think I'd put this on a short list of can't-miss reads for the problems of race and policing.