Policing Black Men: A Conversation with Paul Butler


Organizer of Policing Black Men: 

A Conversation with Paul Butler


As part of OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series, OSI Criminal and Juvenile Justice Director Tara Huffman hosts a conversation with Georgetown Law Professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, author of the new book, “Chokehold: Policing Black Men.” The New York 


Times describes“Chokehold” as “the most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander’s ‘The New Jim Crow.’” Butler suggests that the criminal justice system, in targeting black men, is not malfunctioning but performing exactly as designed. “Cops routinely hurt and humiliate black people because that is what they are paid to do,” he writes. “The police, as policy, treat African-Americans with contempt.” Ultimately, changing the status quo requires not just “reform” of the current system, he claims, but a wholesale reinvention.


DATE AND TIME

Tue, October 3, 2017

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM 


LOCATION

University of Baltimore Law School

Moot Court Room 

1401 N. Charles St. 

Baltimore, MD 21217

OSI-Baltimore

Open Society Institute-Baltimore is a public charity and the sole U.S. field office of Open Society Foundations. We focus on the root causes of three intertwined problems in our city and state: drug addiction, an over-reliance on incarceration, and obstacles that impede youth in succeeding inside and out of the classroom. 


Posted: September 27, 2017, 12:13 PM