Shielded Audiobook Summary
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country’s leading scholars on policing
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 abuses of power—the decisions of the Supreme Court, state and local governments, and policy makers have, over decades, made the police all but untouchable.
In Shielded, University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Joanna Schwartz exposes the myriad ways in which our legal system protects police at all costs, with insightful analyses about subjects ranging from qualified immunity to no-knock warrants. The product of more than two decades of advocacy and research, Shielded is a timely and necessary investigation into why civil rights litigation so rarely leads to justice or prevents future police misconduct. Weaving powerful true stories of people seeking restitution for violated rights, cutting across race, gender, criminal history, tax bracket, and zip code, Schwartz paints a compelling picture of the human cost of our failing criminal justice system, bringing clarity to a problem that is widely known but little understood. Shielded is a masterful work of immediate and enduring consequence, revealing what tragically familiar calls for “justice” truly entail.
© 2023 Robert Longo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Shielded Full Details
Narrator | Joanna Schwartz |
Length | 9 hours 8 minutes |
Author | Joanna Schwartz |
Category | |
Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
Release date | April 28, 2024 |
ISBN | 9780593628881 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Shielded is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: police book, social justice, police reform, history gifts, prison, political science books, journalism, history books, american history, police brutality, discrimination, lawyers, breonna taylor, george floyd, civil rights, black lives matter, blm, law books, political science, policing, law, police, law enforcement, police books, government, political philosophy, political books, politics, crime, sociology, legal, thriller, murder, social science, race, suspense, health, thrillers, corruption, crime fiction, school, us history, Political Science, Law Enforcement, Law, Civil Rights The BISAC Subject Code is Law Enforcement, Political Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Shielded is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593628881.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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