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- Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America
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The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the heart of a growing crisis, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues provides unbiased facts, statistics, and perspectives from both sides of the community-police divide. Pegues has rare access to top law enforcement officials throughout the country, including former FBI director James Comey and police chiefs in major cities. He has also interviewed police union leaders, community activists, and others at the heart of this crisis - people on both sides who are trying to push American law enforcement in a new direction.
How do police officers perceive the people of color who live in high-crime areas? How are they viewed by the communities that they police? Pegues explores these questions and more through interviews with not only police chiefs but also officers on the ground, both Black and White. In addition he goes to the front lines of the debate as crime spikes in some of the nation's major cities. What he found will surprise you as police give a candid look at how their jobs have changed and become more dangerous.
Turning to possible solutions, the author summarizes the best recommendations from police chiefs, politicians, and activists. Listeners will not only be informed but learn what they can do about tensions with police in their communities.
Cover design by Jacqueline Nasso Cooke. Cover design copyright Prometheus Books.
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Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every 200 young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tragically Under-Appreciated
- By Nathan Witkin on 12-02-22
By: David M. Kennedy
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Locking Up Our Own
- Crime and Punishment in Black America
- By: James Forman Jr.
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics - and their impact on people of color - are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Book
- By Andrew on 12-13-17
By: James Forman Jr.
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A Colony in a Nation
- By: Chris Hayes
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,496
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Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So much to this book!
- By Crystal Broadnax on 04-18-17
By: Chris Hayes
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Chokehold
- Policing Black Men
- By: Paul Butler
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread - all with the support of judges and politicians.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but not amazing
- By Andrew on 12-16-17
By: Paul Butler
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Stupid Black Men
- How to Play the Race Card - and Lose
- By: Larry Elder
- Narrated by: Larry Elder
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stupid Black Men, Larry Elder takes on the mind-set of those people who always capture the most media attention - as well as masses of public money - people who say that racism is the root of all problems and who end up hurting precisely those they claim to be helping.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New fan
- By Levonne Burris on 07-15-19
By: Larry Elder
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No Go Zones
- How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
- By: Raheem Kassam
- Narrated by: Ruairi Carter
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these No Go Zones - where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away - can be attested to by its many victims. Now Raheem Kassam, a courageous reporter and editor at Breitbart.com, takes us where few journalists have dared to tread - inside the No Go Zones, revealing areas that Western governments, including the United States, don't want to admit exist within their own borders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- By Stacie L Strader on 08-16-17
By: Raheem Kassam
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Bending Toward Justice
- The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
- By: Doug Jones, Greg Truman, Rick Bragg - foreword
- Narrated by: Doug Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Who were the perpetrators? Due to reluctant witnesses and racial prejudice, the FBI closed the case without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., claimed, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of this key moment in our national struggle for equality and the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy, related by an author who played a major role in the investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great piece of History
- By rita on 03-08-19
By: Doug Jones, and others
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The Savage City
- By: T. J. English
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 - the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Highly Recommend This Book!
- By R on 05-15-13
By: T. J. English
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Con Job
- How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division
- By: Crystal Wright
- Narrated by: Crystal Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Black voters have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party for the last fifty years - and for their loyalty, black Americans have been rewarded with worsening schools, collapsed families, skyrocketed incarceration rates, disappearing jobs, and rising crime. Crystal Wright, editor of the blog Conservative Black Chick, exposes how the Democratic Party has systematically betrayed black voters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome!
- By Tracy on 05-11-16
By: Crystal Wright
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We Gon' Be Alright
- Notes on Race and Resegregation
- By: Jeff Chang
- Narrated by: Jeff Chang
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon' Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington, DC, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a conversation that needs to happen
- By Angie B on 03-11-17
By: Jeff Chang
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Righteous Troublemakers
- Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
- By: Al Sharpton
- Narrated by: Al Sharpton
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work inspired Thurgood Marshall, Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. Sharpton also gives his personal take on more widely known individuals, revealing overlooked details, historical connections, and a perspective informed by years of working in the social justice movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank God for this book knowledge is power
- By JOAN REID on 02-23-22
By: Al Sharpton
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Waging a Good War
- A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- By: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 58
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Thomas E. Ricks offers an utterly new perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution—the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s—and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone, but through recruiting, training, discipline, and organization—the hallmarks of any successful military campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was born and raised in Alabama. Jim Crow Era.
- By Moses Pitts on 10-06-22
By: Thomas E. Ricks
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They're Lying
- The Media, the Left, and the Death of George Floyd
- By: Liz Collin
- Narrated by: Liz Collin
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 100
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Award-winning investigative journalist Liz Collin sets the record straight. She uncovers what really happened on a street in Minneapolis that set off the riots, the demands to defund the police, and the skyrocketing crime across the country. Based on conversations with those who were there—including Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, and other Minneapolis police officers who’ve never spoken out before—Liz exposes how the media and the Left manipulated the facts to dupe and divide America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The truth exposed!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-23
By: Liz Collin
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Black in Blue
- Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation
- By: Carmen Best
- Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Chief Carmen Best has spent the last 28 years as a member of a big-city police force, an institution where minorities and women have historically found it especially difficult to succeed. She defied the odds and became the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Leadership is Lonely
- By Kindle Customer on 11-07-21
By: Carmen Best
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Arrogance
- Rescuing America from the Media Elite
- By: Bernard Goldberg
- Narrated by: Bernard Goldberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 30
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In his #1 New York Times best seller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg created a national firestorm when he exposed the liberal biases of the so-called mainstream media. Now, in his new blockbuster, Goldberg goes even further. He not only takes on Big Journalism, but offers a twelve-step program to help the media elites overcome their addiction to bias.
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4 out of 5 stars
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wow
- By Douglas on 11-11-03
By: Bernard Goldberg
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The Forgotten
- How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America
- By: Ben Bradlee
- Narrated by: Kiff Vandenheuvel
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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In The Forgotten, Ben Bradlee, Jr., reports on how voters in Luzerne County, a pivotal county in a crucial swing state, came to feel like strangers in their own land - marginalized by flat or falling wages, rapid demographic change, and a liberal culture that mocks their faith and patriotism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- By Walter on 11-05-18
By: Ben Bradlee
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- Mark E.
- 02-25-20
Certainly not Black and White!
I’ve been following Jeff Pegues for many years ever since he was a reporter on WABC in NYC. One day he was covering a story in my neighborhood on the upper east side and we were so appreciative of his efforts to not only interview our people, but genuinely try understand the struggles of our situation. This same veracity of the story shines through in Black and Blue. I commend him on his efforts to even tackle such a complex undertaking. Keep it up, Jeff!
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-07-17
Should have been called, Black is Great
The Author is clearly Black and sympathetic to Black Criminals. I have read DOJ reports also on cases he reported. They are completely different. The Majority of police he talks with are Black and also sympathetic. This book is so one sided. Makes me sick.
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