Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights /
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 of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific result powerfully argu...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2021].
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The Supreme Court, Race, and Policing. 1 "I Can't Breathe" : why courts can't stop police from using chokeholds ; 2. Confronting the realities of race and policing ; 3. The Supreme Court's essential role in enforcing the Constitution and controlling police
- Part II: A Minimal Judicial Role : The Court and Policing Before 1953. 4. Why the Supreme Court ignored policing for much of American history ; 5. Judicial silence on Constitutional protections and remedies before 1953
- Part III The Warren Court : Finally Enforcing Constitutional Protections and Remedies. 6. "Each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind" : applying the Bill of Rights to state and local police ; 7. Both limiting and empowering police : the Warren Court and the Fourth Amendment ; 8. Miranda : trying to solve the problem of coercion in police interrogations ; 9. Protecting the innocent from wrongful convictions : safeguards against false eyewitness identifications ; 10. Rights need remedies
- Part IV Retrenchment : The Burger Court Limits Constitutional Rights. 11. "Only the guilty have something to hide" : undermining Fourth Amendment protections ; 12. Hollowing out Miranda ; 13. Refusing to check police eyewitness identification procedures ; 14. Eroding remedies for police misconduct
- Part V Empowering Police : The Rehnquist and Roberts Courts. 15. The police can stop anyone, at any time, and search them ; 16. You don't really have the right to remain silent ; 17. Ignoring the problem of false eyewitness identifications ; 18. The vanishing remedies for police misconduct
- Part VI It Can Be Done : Overcoming the Supreme Court to Reform Policing. 19. The path to meaningful police reform.