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Chokehold: Policing Black Men

von Paul Butler

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Law. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) *A 2017 Washington Post* Notable Book /> A Kirkus Best Book of 2017** �??Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men." �??The Washington Post �??The most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow . . . ." �??The New York Times Book Review �??Powerful . . . deeply informed from a legal standpoint and yet in some ways still highly personal" �??The Times Literary Supplement (London) With the eloquence of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the persuasive research of Michelle Alexander, a former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt it 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. In his no-holds-barred style, Butler, whose scholarship has been featured on 60 Minutes, uses new data to demonstrate that white men commit the majority of violent crime in the United States. For example, a white woman is ten times more likely to be raped by a white male acquaintance than be the victim of a violent crime perpetrated by a black man. Butler also frankly discusses the problem of black on black violence and how to keep communities safer�??without relying as much on police. Chokehold powerfully demonstrates why current efforts to reform law enforcement will not create lasting change. Butler's controversial recommendations about how to crash the system, and when it's better for a black man to plead guilty�??even if he's innocent�??are sure to be game-changers in the national debate about policing, criminal jus… (mehr)

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This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation.... It’s a raucous mix, drawing on a range of voices.... One down note in Butler’s presentation is that he doesn’t adequately address how to get more people to care.... “Chokehold” is more than a critique of our justice system. It is a declaration of who we are as a country: We are a people who accept and support a justice system that treats people differently based on race, gender, skin tone, income, neighborhood and education. By the end of the book, it’s clear that Butler is asking, “Are we really okay with this?”

hinzugefügt von Muscogulus | bearbeitenWashington Post, Katheryn Russell-Brown (Jul 27, 2017)

...[I]n the most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow,” the law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler argues that our society must be completely remade....

hinzugefügt von Muscogulus | bearbeitenNew York Times, Elizabeth Hinton (Jul 26, 2017)

[A] searing look at the interactions of law enforcement and black men by a former prosecutor.... Smart, filled rightfully with righteous indignation, and demanding broad discussion and the widest audience.

hinzugefügt von Muscogulus | bearbeitenKirkus Reviews (Jul 11, 2017)

Chokehold is challenging, and more radical than I would have thought it would be, coming from a former prosecutor.... [H]e's a radical, and will likely be dismissed out of hand by many conservatives and law-and-order types.... But Butler is right on many points. You don't have to join him in embracing critical race theory and the practices and proposals of the movement for black lives to acknowledge that structural racism has been, and to varying degrees still is, a factor in American society.

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Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)
A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book
A Kirkus Best Book of 2017
�??Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men."
�??The Washington Post
�??The most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow . . . ."
�??The New York Times Book Review
�??Powerful . . . deeply informed from a legal standpoint and yet in some ways still highly personal"
�??The Times Literary Supplement (London)
With the eloquence of Ta-Nehisi Coates and the persuasive research of Michelle Alexander, a former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt it
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.

In his no-holds-barred style, Butler, whose scholarship has been featured on 60 Minutes, uses new data to demonstrate that white men commit the majority of violent crime in the United States. For example, a white woman is ten times more likely to be raped by a white male acquaintance than be the victim of a violent crime perpetrated by a black man. Butler also frankly discusses the problem of black on black violence and how to keep communities safer�??without relying as much on police.

Chokehold powerfully demonstrates why current efforts to reform law enforcement will not create lasting change. Butler's controversial recommendations about how to crash the system, and when it's better for a black man to plead guilty�??even if he's innocent�??are sure to be game-changers in the national debate about policing, criminal jus