But with such a vast literature on policing what makes Policing the Black Man different, or rather is there anything new that the book offers? This is a question that I constantly asked myself as I went through the chapters. The book is a compilation of essays from different scholars most of whom are law school professors or work within the legal fraternity. The selection of the contributors seems deliberate but one questions whether or not this is helpful because the problem of policing is not only limited to the realm of the legal. There is an overlap that happens, Jeremy Travis and Bruce Western make this point in the book; policing is directly linked to questions of history, sociology and politics.J Travis and Western (2017) Poverty, Violence and Black Incarceration. A Davis (ed), Policing the Black Man at 294. One wonders therefore how helpful it would have been to have more diverse contributors so as to open up the conversation and stretch it to other provinces of thought and knowledge. Perhaps Angela Davis who is the editor of the book was interested in the specific; policing as it relates to the legal which is permissible but constraining.