I am a black man who at times is afraid of other black men. American cops are the enforcers of a criminal justice regime that targets black men and sets them up to fail. Police violence and selective enforcement are not so much flaws in American criminal justice as they are integral features of it. Black men are locked up at five times the rate of white men. This excerpt originally appeared in Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler, published by The New Press.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2017 10:52 UTC