A darker shade of blue: a police officer’s memoir

Part one: from childhood to police college. Coming of age in a world of whiteness

Why am I here?

Undercover

Part two: Racism 101. "It's not always racist...but sometimes it is"

Pinpricks and microaggressions

Race relations

A place at the table

The spaces that squeeze us

Racism as a construct

When was American, or Canada, ever great for Black people?

Victim kinship

Law and order

No room to fail

Driving with a mahogany hue

Part three: fighting the power from within. Recruiting with a vision

Community expectations

Organization for the encouragement to Canadian citizenship

Black history month

Defunding, reform, or both

Part four: Policing: this is what we do. The eighty percent that I loved

The silent but deadly stressors of patrol

Organized crime: investigative services

Training and education

Not just another day

Words of wisdom

Part five: Still moving forward. Black in blue

My final thoughts.