The most perfect union protects and serves us all / Jelani Jefferson Exum. Afterword A more perfect union / Michael A. Hardy -- Part I. Foundations -- Qualified immunity / Wylie Stecklow -- Administrative complaints against police / Rita McNeil Danish -- Accountability of police as public employees / James Hanks -- What is constitutional policing? / Royce Russell -- Part II. Effecting positive changes : toward a more perfect union -- Contemporary civilian oversight of law enforcement / Sharon R. Fairley -- Pattern or practice investigations and consent decrees / Michael A. Hardy -- Litigating police-civilian encounters / William Harmening -- Transforming policing : lessons from New York City / Donna Lieberman, with Johanna Miller, Lee Rowland, Chris Dunn, Michael Sistzky, and Jared Trujillo -- Afterword The most perfect union protects and serves us all / Jelani Jefferson Exum.
Summary:
"[This book] is about the legal challenges to fostering better policing in the cities and communities of this nation. Issues of public safety and the call for tougher police practices can often be seen differently through the eyes of different communities. There is little debate that most communities want to be safe in their persons and their homes. There is much debate about how we as a nation can get to a place where communities feel secure in their relationships with those who are tasked with policing our communities. This book argues that our Constitution is well designed to create the laws that not only allow our communities to be safe and secure, but also allow us as members of those communities to hold the police who are tasked with 'protecting and serving' accountable"--Back cover.
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