The prohibition era and policing : a legacy of misregulation /
Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices or eyewitness identification protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shoot...
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- From petty officers to powerful police
- Mid-nineteenth century state prohibition laws and the introduction of limits on progressive era officers
- Judicial supervision over liquor searches
- Redefining the evil of tortured confessions
- An awakened hatred of wiretapping
- Regulating searches in an era of police harassment and brutality
- Permitting suspects to consent to coercive and deceptive interrogation practices
- Retreat from rules designed to deter misconduct
- Limited progress toward accuracy and preventing brutality.