Getting Away with Murder
Despite the national attention police violence gained and the calls for police reform following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, police officers are killing more people each year. Black and Hispanic people are killed by police officers at higher rates than white people. Of all the police killi...
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163265 |
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| author | Reed, Wornie Jajesnica, Joyce Losey, Hannah |
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| description | Despite the national attention police violence gained and the calls for police reform following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, police officers are killing more people each year. Black and Hispanic people are killed by police officers at higher rates than white people.
Of all the police killings documented between 2013 and 2019, one data source found that only 1 percent of cases led to a conviction of a police officer. This book discusses four obstacles that stand in the way of getting accountability for police officers involved in cases of excessive police violence: Qualified immunity, the reasonable officer standard, police union contracts, and Law Enforcement Officers’ Bills of Rights. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1632652025-07-31T20:19:38Z Getting Away with Murder Reed, Wornie Jajesnica, Joyce Losey, Hannah Sociology Political science Social sciences Race relations Police use of force Police accountability Qualified immunity Police union contracts Excessive force JBFA1 Despite the national attention police violence gained and the calls for police reform following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, police officers are killing more people each year. Black and Hispanic people are killed by police officers at higher rates than white people. Of all the police killings documented between 2013 and 2019, one data source found that only 1 percent of cases led to a conviction of a police officer. This book discusses four obstacles that stand in the way of getting accountability for police officers involved in cases of excessive police violence: Qualified immunity, the reasonable officer standard, police union contracts, and Law Enforcement Officers’ Bills of Rights. Published 2025-07-31T20:19:36Z 2025-07-31T20:19:36Z 2025-06-05 book 978-1-962841-30-6 978-1-962841-31-3 978-1-962841-32-0 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163265 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.21061/gettingawaywithmurder Virginia Tech Publishing 10.21061/gettingawaywithmurder 10.21061/gettingawaywithmurder deec3796-4cea-47d6-8b05-96b537c9f9f2 978-1-962841-30-6 978-1-962841-31-3 978-1-962841-32-0 open access |
| spellingShingle | Sociology Political science Social sciences Race relations Police use of force Police accountability Qualified immunity Police union contracts Excessive force JBFA1 Reed, Wornie Jajesnica, Joyce Losey, Hannah Getting Away with Murder |
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| topic | Sociology Political science Social sciences Race relations Police use of force Police accountability Qualified immunity Police union contracts Excessive force JBFA1 |
| topic_facet | Sociology Political science Social sciences Race relations Police use of force Police accountability Qualified immunity Police union contracts Excessive force JBFA1 |
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