Connections Between Law Enforcement and Race

Coates’ Between the World and Me: Coate’s, an African American writer and  journalist from Baltimore, tells a compelling story regarding race and law enforcement. Coates writes the book as a message to his son, preparing him for potential injustice and police harassment & brutality. Coates talks about how police reflect America in all of its will and how the American criminal justice system is a product of the majority’s democratic will. He believes the problem doesn’t lie solely with police, but with those who rule the country and create criminal justice policies. His analysis and straightforward honesty about the American justice system helps readers understand his powerful viewpoint.