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Above the Law : How Qualified Immunity Protects Violent Police by Ben Cohen (2021, Trade Paperback)
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• A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It’s caught on video. The officer gets off. • A police officer shoots a man in his car. It happens over and over again.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOr Books, LLC
ISBN-101682192571
ISBN-139781682192573
eBay Product ID (ePID)4050088034
Product Key Features
Book TitleAbove the Law : How Qualified Immunity Protects Violent Police
Number of Pages140 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, Law Enforcement, General, Public Policy / Social Policy
Publication Year2021
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorBen Cohen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.9 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal363.2
Synopsis* A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It's caught on video. The officer gets off. * A police officer strangles a man selling cigarettes. It's caught on video. The officer gets off. * A police officer shoots a man in his car. It's live-streamed. The officer gets off. It happens over and over again. The culprit here, alongside the cops, is Qualified Immunity (QI), a legal principle which Reuters describes as "a nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional rights." 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., - A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It's caught on video. The officer gets off. - A police officer strangles a man selling cigarettes. It's caught on video. The officer gets off. - A police officer shoots a man in his car. It's live-streamed. The officer gets off. It happens over and over again. The culprit here, alongside the cops, is Qualified Immunity (QI), a legal principle which Reuters describes as "a nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional rights." 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.
LC Classification NumberHV7921
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