The Rights of Police Officers
Author : Gilda Brancato
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Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Law
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Author : Gilda Brancato
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Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Law
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Author : American Civil Liberties Union
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : National Council for Civil Liberties (Great Britain)
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Francis Lieber
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Democracy
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Author : Erwin Chemerinsky
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1631496522
An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century. Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and, crucially, the courts to presume that suspects—especially people of color—are guilty before being charged. Today in the United States, much attention is focused on the enormous problems of police violence and racism in law enforcement. Too often, though, that attention fails to place the blame where it most belongs, on the courts, and specifically, on the Supreme Court. A “smoking gun” of civil rights research, Presumed Guilty presents a groundbreaking, decades-long history of judicial failure in America, revealing how the Supreme Court has enabled racist practices, including profiling and intimidation, and legitimated gross law enforcement excesses that disproportionately affect people of color. For the greater part of its existence, Chemerinsky shows, deference to and empowerment of the police have been the modi operandi of the Supreme Court. From its conception in the late eighteenth century until the Warren Court in 1953, the Supreme Court rarely ruled against the police, and then only when police conduct was truly shocking. Animating seminal cases and justices from the Court’s history, Chemerinsky—who has himself litigated cases dealing with police misconduct for decades—shows how the Court has time and again refused to impose constitutional checks on police, all the while deliberately gutting remedies Americans might use to challenge police misconduct. Finally, in an unprecedented series of landmark rulings in the mid-1950s and 1960s, the pro-defendant Warren Court imposed significant constitutional limits on policing. Yet as Chemerinsky demonstrates, the Warren Court was but a brief historical aberration, a fleeting liberal era that ultimately concluded with Nixon’s presidency and the ascendance of conservative and “originalist” justices, whose rulings—in Terry v. Ohio (1968), City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983), and Whren v. United States (1996), among other cases—have sanctioned stop-and-frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of lethal chokeholds. Written with a lawyer’s knowledge and experience, Presumed Guilty definitively proves that an approach to policing that continues to exalt “Dirty Harry” can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights. In the tradition of Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, Presumed Guilty is a necessary intervention into the roiling national debates over racial inequality and reform, creating a history where none was before—and promising to transform our understanding of the systems that enable police brutality.
Author : Janet Clark
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526129582
Issues around the policing of public order and political expression are as topical today as in the past, and are likely to remain so in the future. Janet Clark explores the origins of the National Council for Civil Liberties (the precursor to Liberty) that emerged in 1934 in protest at the policing of political extremes. The book deals with police attempts to discredit the NCCL and the use of intelligence to perpetuate a view of the organisation as a front for the Communist Party. It also examines the state and police responses to this organised criticism of police powers. This book is essential reading for students and lecturers studying British social history, the development of civil liberties and of policing in Britain, as well as anyone interested in this enduring topic. Included is a foreword by Clive Emsley, Emeritus Professor in History at the Open University, and widely regarded as the doyen of police history.
Author : American Civil Liberties Union
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Freedom of speech
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Author : National Council for Civil Liberties (Great Britain)
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : NCCL Staff
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
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ISBN : 9780785529958
Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Civil rights
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