Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Erwin Chemerinsky

Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

Erwin Chemerinsky

362 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history race reference sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a "smoking gun" of civil rights research, a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are ...

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