Book Excerpt: An Ex-Detroit Police Officer Writes About Racism and the Racial Divide on the Police Force
Mike Cowling served in the Detroit Police Department from 1972-90 and worked uniform patrol, a felony plainclothes car and 16 years as an undercover narcotics officer. The white former officer writes in his new book, “Force Divided,” about the racial divide in the department and racism he saw among white and black officers. “Yes, the…