Today we’re joined by two award-winning journalists from the field of criminal justice and police misconduct. Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham have coauthored the book The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland, an exposé following many years of investigation of The Oakland Police Department. We get into why they wanted to write about the OPD in the first place, and ask whether the police can be reformed. We also discuss how the authors feel their own identities played into their writing of the book.

The Stacks Book Club selection for January is The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis. We will discuss the book on January 25th with Chelsea Devantez.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• The Riders Come Out at Night by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
• The Stacks Most Anticipated Books of 2023 (Traci Thomas, shereads.com)
• East Bay Express
• The New York Times
• Ali Winston at the New York Times
• California Senate Bill 1421 (2018)
• Sam Ferguson
• City of Quartz by Mike Davis
• 1992 Los Angeles riots
• Bill Parker
• Daryl Gates
• Carla Marinucci
• Lance Williams
• San Francisco Examiner
• Subversives by Seth Rosenfeld
• Melvin Black
• John Burris
• Oscar Grant murder
• Black Lives Matter
• “OAKLAND / ‘Riders’ lied, brutalized man, ex-rookie testifies” (Henry K. Lee, SFGate)
• Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001)
• Robert Mueller
• Earl Warren
• Libby Schaff
• “Ep. 239 The Purpose of a System Is What It Does with Mariame Kaba” (The Stacks)
• “Ep. 179 Imagining Better with Derecka Purnell” (The Stacks)
• Prison by Any Other Name by Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar
• Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell
• America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton
• The Shadow of the Panther by Hugh Pearson
• Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• No There There by Chris Rhomberg
• American Babylon by Robert O. Self
• Lt. Gwynne Pierson
• Robert Treuhaft
• Decca Mitford
• Mitford Sisters

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