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Shielded How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz

Winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abu...

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The book was presented as a fantastic and compulsively readable discussion about the many ways the law shields police officers from accountability for wrongdoing. It detailed human stories of victims of misconduct and provided a lucid account of how civil procedure has created hurdles for civil rights litigants.

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the bulk of today's episode is actually going to be a conversation with Professor Joanna Schwartz, who teaches at UCLA and who is the author of a fantastic new book titled Shielded, How the Police Bec...

— Episode: Shielded: How the Police Became Untoucha...

Episode: Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

The book was presented as a fantastic and compulsively readable discussion about the many ways the law shields police officers from accountability for wrongdoing. It detailed human stories of victims of misconduct and provided a lucid account of how civil procedure has created hurdles for civil rights litigants.

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the bulk of today's episode is actually going to be a conversation with Professor Joanna Schwartz, who teaches at UCLA and who is the author of a fantastic new book titled Shielded, How the Police Became Untouchable.

the indispensable new book shielded how the police became untouchable so welcome to the pod Joanna.

The book is so incredibly effective at telling those human stories like Henri Norris's.

The book is not remotely hyperbolic to suggest that these cases really are about the future of multiracial democracy and about the mechanisms of democracy.

The book is available on Bookshop.org. Anywhere you buy your books, it's also available as an e-book and an audio book read by the author.

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