U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Dec. 17, 2014
Holding police officers liable
More than at any time in recent memory, national attention is directed at the problem of police abuse. This should be an impetus for reforms that increase the likelihood that police will be held accountable.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
More than at any time in recent memory, national attention is directed at the problem of police abuse. This should be an impetus for reforms that increase the likelihood that police will be held accountable. Protests across the country continue in response to the failure of grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., to indict police officers who killed young African-American men.
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