Presumed guilty: how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights

Part I: The Supreme Court, race, and policing

"I Can't Breathe" : why courts can't stop police from using chokeholds

Confronting the realities of race and policing

The Supreme Court's essential role in enforcing the Constitution and controlling police

Part II: A minimal judicial role : the Court and policing before 1953

Why the Supreme Court ignored policing for much of American history

Judicial silence on Constitutional protections and remedies before 1953

Part III: The Warren Court : finally enforcing constitutional protections and remedies

"Each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind" : applying the Bill of Rights to state and local police

Both limiting and empowering police : the Warren Court and the Fourth Amendment

Miranda : trying to solve the problem of coercion in police interrogations

Protecting the innocent from wrongful convictions : safeguards against false eyewitness identifications

Rights need remedies

Part IV: Retrenchment : the Burger Court limits constitutional rights

"Only the guilty have something to hide" : undermining Fourth Amendment protections

Hollowing out Miranda

Refusing to check police eyewitness identification procedures

Eroding remedies for police misconduct

Part V: Empowering police : the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts

The police can stop anyone, at any time, and search them

You don't really have the right to remain silent

Ignoring the problem of false eyewitness identifications

The vanishing remedies for police misconduct

Part VI: It can be done : overcoming the Supreme Court to reform policing

The path to meaningful police reform.