Origins : Gateway to the war on drugs: marijuana, 1975 - Black lives matter: gun control, 1975 - Representatives of their race: the rise of African American police, 1948-78 - Part II. Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-286) and index "Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans-as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters-played in escalating the war on crime". The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils.". Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas-from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency.
Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a "cancer" that had to be cut away from the rest of black America.
Many came to believe that tough measures-such as stringent drug and gun laws and "pretext traffic stops" in poor African American neighborhoods-were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. 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.
Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics-and their impact on people of color-are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. "An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency.
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