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The Stowe Center for Literary Activism’s last installment of the 2025 Reading for Change series will be a conversation on Edwin Raymond’s whistleblowing book An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America that will be facilitated by Edwin Raymond and Chair of the Stowe Center’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Michael Mallery. In An Inconvenient Cop follows Edwin Raymond’s decade and a half with the New York Police Department. He consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing, becoming the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the force and one of the country’s leading voices against police injustice. Offering a rare, often shocking view of American policing, An Inconvenient Cop pulls back the curtain on the many flaws woven into the NYPD’s training, data, and practices, which have since been repackaged and repurposed by police departments across the country.
Gravitating toward law enforcement in the hope of being a positive influence in his community, Raymond quickly learned that the problem with policing is a lot deeper than merely “a few bad apples”—the entire mechanism is set up to ensure that racial profiling is rewarded, and there are weighty consequences for cops who don’t play along. Struggling with the moral dilemma of policing impartially while witnessing his fellow officers go with the flow, Raymond’s journey takes him to the precipice of personal and professional ruin. Yet, through it all, he remains steadfast in his commitment to justice and his belief in the potential for change.
We are delighted to share an evening of dialogue, insight, and community building.
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Hartford Public Library, 500 Main St,Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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