{"product_id":"the-black-and-the-blue-9780316440097","title":"The Black and the Blue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider''s examination of police tactics, which he concludes is an archaic system built on toxic brotherhood. Horace dissects some of the nation''s most highly publicized police shootings and communities highlighted in the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond to explain how these systems and tactics have had detrimental outcomes to the people they serve. Horace provide\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401688752471,"sku":"9780316440097","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-black-and-the-blue-9780316440097","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}