Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Chemerinsky Erwin
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Chemerinsky Erwin Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other…
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Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Chemerinsky Erwin
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, or under the knee, of an officer. Too often, though, that attention fails to place the blame where it most belongs, on the courts, and specifically, on the Supreme Court. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and, crucially, the courts to presume that suspects--especially people of color--are guilty before being charged.Today in the United States, much attention is focused on the enormous problems of police violence and racism in law enforcement.
A "smoking gun" of civil rights research, Presumed Guilty presents a groundbreaking, decades-long history of judicial failure in America,