Forced Out: A Detectives Story of Prejudice and Resilience

Kevin Maxwell

ISBN 10: 1846276810 / ISBN 13: 9781846276811

Published by Granta Publications Ltd, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forced Out: A Detectives Story of Prejudice and Resilience
• Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846276810
• ISBN 13: 9781846276811
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

An explosive insider's account of racism, homophobia and wrongdoing in today's police force and his fight for change

'One of the most compulsive books I've read in a long while. Maxwell's experiences as a black gay policeman demonstrate how far we have to go as a country when the institution created to protect us persecutes us instead.'
- Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other

Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force - he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a working class family, he could easily have been a poster boy for the force's stated commitment to equal opportunities. Joining just after the 9/11 attacks, Kevin entered policing determined to keep communities safe in the face of a changing world. But instead he came up against entrenched prejudice, open racism and homophobia. For more than ten years, Kevin strove against the odds, until he took the force to an employment tribunal - with devastating results.

Forced Out is a revelatory exposé combining deeply affecting memoir with sharp analysis and a fascinating insider perspective on day-to-day life in the force. It is a touchstone for the silent many who have either tried to ignore abuse for the sake of their career or who have been bullied out of their jobs. It paints a sobering portrait of an institution that has not yet learned the lessons of the past and whose prejudice is informing the cases it chooses to investigate and the way it investigates them. And it asks the important question: what needs to change?