Shielded : how the police became untouchable
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
344.52/SCHWARTZ,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Viking, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 308 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593299364, 0593299361 :, 0593299361, 9780593299364
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- 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
"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"--