Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve's Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court Author: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Narrator: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago–Cook County, and she takes listeners inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to 'save' and which they will sacrifice. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality.