Unwarranted : policing without permission

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Label

Unwarranted : policing without permission

Title remainder

policing without permission

Statement of responsibility

Barry Friedman

Creator

• Friedman, Barry, 1958-

Author

• Friedman, Barry, 1958-

Subject

• Civil rights. -- United States
• Electronic surveillance -- Law and legislation
• Electronic surveillance -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Espionage
• Espionage -- United States
• Intelligence service
• Intelligence service -- United States
• Civil rights
• LAW / Constitutional
• Law enforcement
• Law enforcement -- United States
• Privacy, Right of
• Privacy, Right of -- United States
• United States
• LAW / Constitutional
• Civil rights -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

• "As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been eroded In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues that these two seemingly disparate events are connected, and that the problem is not so much the policing agencies as it is the rest of us. We allow these agencies to operate in secret and to decide how to police us, rather than calling the shots ourselves. The courts have let us down entirely. Unwarranted is filled with stories of ordinary people whose lives were sundered by policing gone awry. Driven by technology, policing has changed dramatically from cops seeking out bad guys, to mass surveillance of all of society, backed by an increasingly militarized capability. Friedman captures this new eerie environment in which CCTV, location tracking, and predictive policing has made us all suspects, while proliferating SWAT teams and increased use of force puts everyone at risk. Police play an indispensable role in our society. But left under-regulated by us and unchecked by the courts, our lives, liberties, and property are at peril. Unwarranted is a vital, timely intervention in debates about policing, a call to take responsibility for governing those who govern us. "--
• "As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been eroded"--

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• Provided by publisher
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Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

344.7305/2

Index

index present

LC call number

KF5399

LC item number

.F75 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography