Policing Black Men: A Conversation with Paul Butler
Organizer of Policing Black Men:
A Conversation with Paul Butler
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
