These essays serve as a powerful reminder
to those who uncritically consider racial policing as
happenstance, accidental, or the product of a few rogue police
officers. Together, they offer us a panoramic view of the intersections
between law, race, social movements, and the science
infiltrating our deep critiques of how 鈥渢he way things are鈥 is
simply more of the way they have always been. In the end, their analyses compellingly link the multiple forms of state violence鈥
domestic and imperialist鈥攚ith sexual violence, focusing
our attention on how race and policing is a process, learned
and instituted. In the end, we all can agree that with attention,
intention, and effort, racialized policing can be and needs to be
reversed if American really truly wants to become great.