Reading For Change: An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America: Edwin Raymond with the Stowe Center
Hybrid Event: Online or In Person
About the Book
An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America is Edwin Raymond’s gripping and deeply reflective account of his fifteen years within the New York Police Department. With unwavering candor and moral clarity, Raymond reveals the entrenched structures, racialized pressures, and unforgiving metrics that shape the realities of American policing. His story moves with the force of testimony—navigating the personal cost of resistance, the peril of speaking truth to power, and the enduring belief that justice must be pursued even when the consequences are steep.
The memoir becomes both exposé and elegy: a reckoning with history, a meditation on accountability, and a call to imagine systems capable of change. Lyrical yet unflinching, An Inconvenient Cop underscores the vital role of witness in the struggle for equity and reform.
The Stowe Center is pleased to host a monthly book club to discuss works that embody the values of literary activism. Our book selections are from Stowe Prize shortlist and winners; works which engage with social justice, tell honest histories, and model how we can all be part of change for good. Please join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss these important and timely books with guest hosts who will guide our conversation and offer diverse insight and perspectives.
Meetings will be held on the second Wednesdays of the month starting in September.
