By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.

By: Kekla Magoon

A tragic story of Tariq Joha young black man fatally shot by a white man and how this act of violence affects an entire community. In Tariq's hometown of Underhill, crime and gang activity is not uncommon and the possibility of death and murder is very real.

By: Alex S. Vitale

The book is about police in the contemporary United States and the nature of policing. Vitale argues that the purpose of police is not to deal with instances of social ills, but to uphold inequalities in society on the axes of class, gender, race and sexuality.