To fix the problems requires a realignment of our thinking about the role police play and how closely they as a group and as individuals are knitted into the fabric of society.
Instead, they reflect bad policing procedures and policies that many of our departments have come to accept as gospel. The wrongs inside police departments Are not about a handful of bad police officers. Instead, the message is a demand and a plea for society to embrace African-Americans’ humanity. Everything in America-from educational institutions to social networks, television, news, films, financial markets-says white lives do matter. These protesters are not saying white lives don’t matter or that police lives don’t matter. The suspect has once again been misidentified. I thought about my fellow officers who are upset or feel betrayed about a movement that is directed at fighting against police. Police are merely the flash point, the most immediate intersection between abrasive and discriminatory policies and the black public. These same dire statistics have been the underlying cause of black riots since the 1960s. Our lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher rate of chronic diseases, lower income levels, and higher unemployment rates are all interrelated. The incidents we routinely encounter which would be unacceptable in the white community, are shunted aside, ignored, or explained away, as if we were throwaway people, as if our lives didn’t matter. When it comes to ailments and needs in the black community, the response is punitive and lacking. Whether unconsciously or intentionally, American society is suffused with a racial bias that must be eradicated. He criss-crosses the country interviewing law enforcement leaders, sharing their personal stories, and offering important commentary on how these stories reflect on our larger policing issues and racism in America.Īs I made my way north up Interstate-95, I thought about deadly police interactions with African-Americans and the difference in the two drug crises -one perceived as black and the other as white. Matthew Horace worked as a law enforcement officer at the local and federal level for almost 30 years.
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