{"title":"Radley Balko","description":"Radley Balko reports on criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The Washington Post. He was previously a writer and investigative reporter at the Huffington Post, and a reporter and editor for Reason magazine. He is also author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. His work has been cited twice by the U.S. Supreme Court, and by the Mississippi Supreme Court and two federal appeals courts. He has won the L.A. Press Club's Journalist of the Year award, the NACDL's Champion of Justice Award, the Innocence Project's Journalism Award, and the Bastiat Prize for Journalism. He lives in Nashville, where he also writes about the city's music and culture.","products":[{"product_id":"the-cadaver-king-and-the-country-dentist-a-true-story-of-injustice-in-the-american-south-paperback","title":"The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Cadaver King and the Country Dentist\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart.\u003cbr\u003e Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system--a relic of the Jim Crow era--failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367380320479,"sku":"9781541774056","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gcyxcOyGOl9781541774056.webp?v=1789106165"},{"product_id":"rise-of-the-warrior-cop-the-militarization-of-americas-police-forces-paperback","title":"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fascinating and at times wrenching\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) history of how police forces have become militarized, both in equipment and mindset, and what that means for American democracy\u003c\/b\u003e The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America's cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In\u003ci\u003e Rise of the Warrior Cop\u003c\/i\u003e, Balko shows how politicians' ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America's earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378725191903,"sku":"9781541774537","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hB3mVtkVmT9781541774537.webp?v=1789261591"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/radley-balko.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}