How SCOTUS enabled police abuses of civil rights–and what we can do about it

Legal Talk Network - Law News and Legal Topics · Oct 13, 2021 · 26m

Much has been said about police officers and departments who violate civil rights or enforce the law in discriminatory ways. But not as much attention has been paid to the ways in which the U.S. Supreme Court has enabled police excesses and insulated police from civil or criminal responsibility, says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and author of the new book Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.

In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Chemerinsky discusses why the Supreme Court did not…