Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

An eye-opening, informative, excellent read. The subject matter is very timely and I give this book my most enthusiastic recommendation.

Before you argue that Confederate statues are about our history rather than our present; before you argue that the Charlottesville marchers couldn't possibly be police and prosecutors and lawmakers; before you make claims about some stat you saw on Fox about black on black crime or proportional criminality, read this book. We have a problem in this country, and there is one group who bears most of its cost.

This is a really good book to read

A real Eye opener A must read for policemen and police departments in this country. Maybe if police read the book they may see and understand the errors of their ways.

Learned some things to think about. Parallels between the 1960's and today. Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I have not completed the book yet, but I already can say it's a "MUST READ." It's very enlightening and informative. I think every parent of a black male should read this.

the role of government in supporting racism has been gross. I am aware of racism but the role of government historically has been worse than I thought. Robert j. allison

Great essays! A must read!

I am a would-be Trump supporter (Would be since I am not American) and share a "FOX news" world view. I think it is always important to step outside ones own bubble, so this book caught my attention. I did not expect to be in line with the oppinion expressed, but I hoped to learn from it.Turns out I was right. The book is a collection of essays by people I did not know, but who seem to be experts in the topic. The editor is a black female law professor and her colleages are mostly black and often from academia or civil rights organisations.Frankly speaking I can not grasp what I see in the news. This whole BLM movement seems to be a combination of lunacy, mass hysteria and neo communists and I can not understand, why the whole world endorses this movement. Well, the text is helpfull here, since it shows the rationale behind the protests.Now my problem is, that the text is very disingenuous. As I said, these are smart people writing here so I have to asume they are not naive, but manipulating. Everything is framed according to the expectation, it is a very black-and-white presentation (pun intended) that vilifies America and white people and frames black people as vicitms of racism - always.Already in the foreword, there is a list of the familiar names that have been declared vicitims of racism in the past few years. At least in some cases, I looked into it and remember the details that did not fit this narratives, but these details are not given here. Tamir Rice happened to carry a replica gun when he was shot dead... independend on how one judges this case it is wrong to simply omit these facts. Trayvon Martin of course must not be absent. The shooter Zimmerman is described as "white" despite his mother is from Peru and has African ancestry, the fact that the jury aquitted Z. is taken as a proof of racism despite the fact that even the President did take Trayvon Martins side. (How much more proof that the "institutional racism" is a fantasy does it need?)The first essay delivers interesting facts about slavery in the 19th century and is quick to declare todays judicial practices as a substitute for lynching. The US have been racist "from the moment the white settlers reached the contient" to today - the civil rights movement is just a footnote there and the lynch mobs of the early 20th cty are still around, just that they changed their tactics (death penalty and mass incarceration). It is sad to see that much historic knowledge mighled with ideological blindlness. Slavery that is described as the essence of American Culture is of course (sadly) a constant in human history. Ancient cultures had slaves, pre-christian Europe had slaves, Ottoman Turkey kept slaves and today, slavery remains a reality in some places. What is special about european-christian culture is not that they had slaves, but that they abolished the practice.Very interesting read, but sad to see how hatered and ideology blinds even intelligent people