The American criminal-justice system, writes Georgetown law professor David Cole, has effectively become a two-tiered system, with differing levels of regard depending on the race or class of a given citizen who comes into contact with it. The thousands of African Americans who have been confronted by law-enforcement agents nationwide for "fitting the description" of alleged perpetrators would likely agree, but, according to Cole, it isn't just the cops that operate this way; judges, prosecutors, …showed first 75 words of 545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 545 total…a little too much blames on the Supreme Court, it still shows the biases real well within our system of justice. Thought, as I stated before that I felt that this book was scholarly while at the same time being easy to read, I do feel that the book could spend a little more time on solutions; case examples and the minority problems which cause crime within our society-but this is a good book overall.