Presumed Guilty: How The Supreme Court Empowered Police And Subverted Civil Rights Erwin Chemerinsky Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Police Are Nine Times More Likely To Kill African-American Men Than They Other Americans—In Fact Nearly One In Every Thousand Will Die At The Hands Or Under Knee Of An Officer As Eminent Constitutional Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky Powerfully Argues This Is No Accident But Horrific Result Elaborate Body Doctrines That Allow And Crucially Courts Presume Suspects—Especially People Color—Are Guilty Before Being Charged Today United States Much Attention Focused On Enormous Problems Violence Racism Law Enforcement Too Often Though Fails Place Blame Where It Most Belongs Specifically Supreme Court A “Smoking Gun” Civil Rights Research Presumed Presents Groundbreaking Decades-Long History Judicial Failure America Revealing How Has Enabled Racist Practices Including Profiling Intimidation Legitimated Gross Excesses Disproportionately Affect Color For Greater Part Its Existence Shows Deference Empowerment Have Been Modi Operandi From Conception Late Eighteenth Century Until Warren 1953 Rarely Ruled Against Then Only When Conduct Was Truly Shocking Animating Seminal Cases Justices Court’s Chemerinsky—Who Himself Litigated Dealing With Misconduct Decades—Shows Time Again Refused Impose Checks All While Deliberately Gutting Remedies Americans Might Use Challenge Finally Unprecedented Series Landmark Rulings Mid-1950S 1960S Pro-Defendant Imposed Significant Limits Policing Yet Demonstrates Brief Historical Aberration Fleeting Liberal Era Ultimately Concluded Nixon’s Presidency Ascendance Conservative “Originalist” Whose Rulings—In Terry V Ohio (1968) City Los Angeles Lyons (1983) Whren (1996) Among Cases—Have Sanctioned Stop-And-Frisks Limited Suits Reform Departments Even Abetted Lethal Chokeholds Written Lawyer’s Knowledge Experience Definitively Proves Approach Continues Exalt “Dirty Harry” Can Be Transformed By Robust System Committed Tradition Richard Rothstein’s Necessary Intervention Into Roiling National Debates Over Racial Inequality Creating None Before—And Promising Transform Our Understanding Systems Enable Brutality Σελίδες: 384 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm