White privilege and police brutality.

The Riders Come Out at Night is a very topical exploration of police corruption as it pretrains to the Oakland police department. While the forward expresses that this should read as a small-scale case study for a much larger and far more systematic issue, it is very hard to tackle this book without feeling ill. Once you get past the wordy prose that introduces the 'settings' and 'characters' it is difficult to tolerate some of the author's tongue-in-cheek humor throughout. While I understand sarcasm can be an effective tool to address difficult conversations, I feel like there is a disconnect between the novel and the author's intended message, making this particular read fall short of insightful.

I would have liked to spend less time with the police and more time with the community and their victims, studying the impact of the crimes brashly commited in the name of 'justice'. Instead what I got was a narrative about how and why we got to the point of normalizing the inexcusable, undermining the sincerity of anythingt hat might come close to an apology or action plan.

Sadly, I cannot say that this is a non-fiction work that I will be recommending any time soon.

[Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Books for a free copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.]

I tried to read this book twice, but found the prose to be too long and slow. The book is extremely detailed and repeats itself a lot. I couldn't keep the people and story straight as it wasn't edited to place that helped me as a reader who didn't know the story well. If you're well versed in The Oakland Police Department over the years this might work better for you.

I ran into some personal issues and was unable to read the book or write a review....my apologies to the publisher.

'The Riders Come Out at Night' is an excellent case study of police brutality in one police department. The wealth of information here is staggering, as well as the amount of history that was delved into in order to provide longterm context for the department. Definitely worth the read as a way to further understand the problematic history of policing in the United States.

I have been on a nonfiction kick recently and this one stood out for many reasons. I loved the honesty and emotion. I felt like I was in the moment with the author and I felt like the articulation of the circumstances were easy to understand which I appreciated with such a complex issue.

This is such an egregious story about police brutality in neighborhood under siege in those in power not caring. It is so sad to think that if not for one of the things that started this own slot of justice would still be happening. We can only be thankful for the rookie Keith man and his conscious but what is sad is that they hit a whole police force of rookies and old-timers that were A-OK with the status quo. I feel like it would be wrong to say I enjoyed the story because so many people had to be injured and or murdered for the story to be written it definitely held my attention and broke my heart all at the same time. How humans can treat each other like this baffles me. If you love a great story about good beating evil then you should read the Riders Come Out at Night I do want to say one thing though I did find the author made every excuse for those who are cops called sample he said in the beginning riots are the language of the unheard and then when they were doing a drugs thing and pretending to be drug dealers when someone went up to them to buy crack he said they were tricked into doing it. I don’t trust anyone to pinion Hoosies victims as only victims is it there’s no way at all possible they too could be perpetrated there were many examples in this book where police were abusive physically and verbally and I don’t want to take anything away from the fact that they are horrible people but I don’t think giving someone a complete pass is helpful at all. When we don’t acknowledge wrongdoing The Knick continues like in the case of this book you spell the author was too apologetic and acted as if no one in this town with the corrupt police force we’re guilty of anything that they were just victims and nothing else. I am not talking about the truth victims and I wish I was better equipped verbally to put my thoughts into words but last I am not so I will just say this was a great book and although I didn’t agree with his apologetic attitude towards everyone I still agree the cops are a bunch of jerks and should’ve been taken down long before 2000. This is such a good book and one I highly recommend. I received this book from netGalley and the publisher that I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

Very well researched and written. Wildly heartbreaking at points but most definitely a story that needs to be told. At times it did feel like it was running a bit long. Very informative.