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Shielded : how the police became untouchable
Author
Title
Shielded : how the police became untouchable / Joanna Schwartz.
ISBN
9780593299364
0593299361
9780593299371
Publication
[New York, New York] : Viking, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xxi, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Place of publication from publisher's website.
Summary
"An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing"-- Provided by publisher.
Despite recent high-profile murders that have brought attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct, it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abuses of power. Schwartz exposes the myriad ways in which our legal system protects police at all costs, with analysis about subjects ranging from qualified immunity to no-knock warrants. She paints a compelling picture of the human cost of our failing criminal justice system, and reveals what tragically familiar calls for "justice" truly entail. -- adapted from jacket
Variant and related titles
How the police became untouchable
Other formats
Online version: Schwartz, Joanna C. Shielded. [New York, New York] : Viking, [2023]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
How we got here
Lawyers
The complaint
The Constitution
Qualified immunity
Suing the city
Judges
Juries
Court-ordered reforms
Officers' bank accounts
Local government budgets
Learning from lawsuits
A better way.
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