Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Introduction

PART I: ORIGINS

1.   Gateway to the War on Drugs: Marijuana, 1975

2.   Black Lives Matter: Gun Control, 1975

3.   Representatives of Their Race: The Rise of African American Police, 1948–78

PART II: CONSEQUENCES

4.   “Locking Up Thugs Is Not Vindictive”: Sentencing, 1981–82

5.   “The Worst Thing to Hit Us Since Slavery”: Crack and the Advent of Warrior Policing, 1988–92

6.   What Would Martin Luther King, Jr., Say?: Stop and Search, 1995

Epilogue: The Reach of Our Mercy, 2014–16

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

A Note About the Author

Copyright