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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
In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abuses of power—the decisions of the Supreme Court, state and local governments, and policy makers have, over decades, made the police all but untouchable.
In Shielded, University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Joanna Schwartz exposes the myriad ways in which our legal system protects police at all costs, with insightful analyses about subjects ranging from qualified immunity to no-knock warrants. The product of more than two decades of advocacy and research, Shielded is a timely and necessary investigation into why civil rights litigation so rarely leads to justice or prevents future police misconduct. Weaving powerful true stories of people seeking restitution for violated rights, cutting across race, gender, criminal history, tax bracket, and zip code, Schwartz paints a compelling picture of the human cost of our failing criminal justice system, bringing clarity to a problem that is widely known but little understood. Shielded is a masterful work of immediate and enduring consequence, revealing what tragically familiar calls for “justice” truly entail.
The price of "Shielded (Hardcover Book)" at Downtown Comics in Castleton is USD $30.00.
The publisher of "Shielded (Hardcover Book)" is Penguin Books.
The genres of "Shielded (Hardcover Book)" are Law - Civil Rights, Political Science - Corruption & Misconduct, and Political Science - Law Enforcement.
"Shielded (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "Shielded (Hardcover Book)" is Joanna Schwartz.