Yet it was after seven years of 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. Matthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Horace's street cred and hard-won insights make this one of the best treatments yet of police misconduct." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Horace and coauthor Harris write sympathetically of the dilemmas of policing, but are uncompromising in their indictment of abuses. "The hidden dysfunctions in American policing are laid bare in this searching exposé. Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionĬareer police officer turned CNN contributor offers a "hard-hitting, convincing indictment of the biases in today's law enforcement." - Booklist (starred review)
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