Shielded : : how the Police Became Untouchable

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Call Number: 344.73 Sc, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Law / Schwartz, Joanna
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Includes index.
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.
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.

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Important and compelling submitted by robinmariepeterson on July 26, 2023, 7:55pm Great mix of gripping narrative and legal explanations. Would have liked more comparison to other types of cases for context, but overall important read showcasing the myriad reasons why police avoid accountability for even egregious violations of civil rights