Important to note on the question of policing which the book ignores is that the violence that is meted at black people by the police cannot be addressed through transformative measures, the depth of the problem demands much more than reconfigurations here and there. This is correctly pointed out by Marc Mauer when he gestures to the fact that integration policies have not worked because even though there are now more black people who work inside the criminal justice system, mass incarceration and police violence on black people continues to increase.M Mauer (2017) The Endurance of Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System. A Davis (ed), Policing the Black Man at 32. This is precisely because the problem is a structural one. Black people exist outside of sociality; they are invisible to civil society. They enter the world not as citizens that can be incorporated into certain discourses but they enter the world as something else. Fanon argues this when he says black people can never exist within the paradigm of (white) civil society because ‘the two zones are opposed’ and ‘no conciliation is possible’. The contributions in the book seem to be avoiding this, perhaps deliberately but any conversation that seeks to diagnose or chart a way forward for the criminal justice system must address this.