Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

‘A MUST-READ FOR ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERSECTION OF Competition AND Law enforcement BRUTALITY IN AMERICA.’-CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace increased through the rates from a officer operating the beat to a federal agent operating criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal police executive handling high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet about The Black as well as the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America¿s POLICE it was not really until seven years into his support- when Horace discovered himself face down on the floor with a weapon pointed at his head with a white fellow officer-that he completely understood the racism seething within America’s law enforcement departments.

Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider’s study of archaic police tactics. He dissects a number of the nation’s most extremely publicized police shootings and neighborhoods to explain how these systems and tactics have hurt the people they serve, uncovering the mistakes which have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration rates, and an epidemic of violence.

‘Horace’s authority as an experienced official, as well as his apparent integrity and courage, supplies the book having a gravitas.’-THE WASHINGTON POST

‘The Black and the Blue is an affirmation of the critical dependence on offender justice reform, all the more urgent because itcomes from an insider who respects his profession yet is willing to reveal its flaws.’-USA TODAY