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Above the law: how "qualified immunity" protects violent police

Ben Cohen; with a foreword by Michael Render ("Killer Mike")
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
New York : OR Books, [2021]
Copyright:
©2021
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Summary:
It happens over and over again. The culprit here, alongside the cops, is Qualified Immunity (QI), a legal principle which Reuters describes as za nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional rights.y Originally intended to protect cops from being sued over good faith mistakes, courts have interpreted QI so broadly that police are shielded from accountability in all but the rarest of circumstances. Only when the exact same abusive behavior was already deemed unconstitutional by a court in the exact same jurisdiction can victims succeed in a prosecution. Above the Law recounts 12 cases in which justice was denied because of QI. The stories are accompanied by infographics, timelines, and contextualizing background to create a concise and compelling indictment of an outrageously unjust legal principle that must be changed. -- [Amazon.com]
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Sonia Sotomayor
  • Walking While Black
  • Tased, Hogtied, And ...
  • Only Way To Fix Qualified Immunity Is To End It
  • Undercover And Above The Law
  • Driving While Black
  • Justice Reeves
  • -Bumper
  • Call The Real Cops
  • Hide The Tea
  • Take It From Me, A Former Cop: Qualified Immunity Must End
  • Surrendering While Black
  • School Drop-Off
  • Reasoning Behind Qualified Immunity
  • Unarmed And Not Dangerous
  • Sleeping While Black
  • Qualified Immunity?
  • Search And Steal
  • Broken Home
  • Misguided Experiment
  • Watching Tv While Black
  • Teddy Bear
  • No One Is Above The Law
  • Home, Sweet Home
  • Two-Wheeling
  • Perverse Irony
  • Players Coalition Letter.
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Author/Creator:
Cohen, Ben (Ben R.) , author
Contributors:
Killer Mike (Rapper) , writer of foreword
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Above the law: how "qualified immunity" protects violent police [by Cohen, B.]
Subjects:
Racial profiling in law enforcement — United States
Police brutality — United States
Discrimination in law enforcement — United States
Police misconduct — United States
Police — United States
Racism — United States
Crime and race — United States
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Call Numbers:
KF5399 .C63 2021eb
ISBNs:
9781682192559 (electronic bk.)
1682192555 (electronic bk.)
9781682192573 [Invalid]
1682192571 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1247673665
Other Control Numbers:
EBC6553869 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302078058