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At once creative and conservative, Friedman offers a timely blueprint for recovering democratic control of local and national law enforcement.-- Kirkus Starred Review An important book about the twenty-first-century rules of engagement for counter-terrorism, police work, surveillance and crime prevention...Unwarranted shakes us from what we've allowed ourselves to accept. -- Wall Street Journal Looks beyond the lethal use of force at many other ways the Fourth Amendment protection against 'unreasonable searches and seizures' has been ignored or stretched in the name of public safety. -- New York Times Book Review Presents an incisive analysis of the pitfalls that have frustrated previous attempts to regulate policing...At once creative and conservative, Friedman offers a timely blueprint for recovering democratic control of local and national law enforcement. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This important, accessible book diagnoses the many pathologies of modern policing in contexts rangingfrom inner-city crime to terrorism...[Friedman] provides fresh, concrete guidance for how judges and the American people can make modern policing democratically accountable, lawful, and effective. -- Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of law at Harvard University

"At once creative and conservative, Friedman offers a timely blueprint for recovering democratic control of local and national law enforcement.-- ""Kirkus Starred Review"" ""An important book about the twenty-first-century rules of engagement for counter-terrorism, police work, surveillance and crime prevention...Unwarranted shakes us from what we've allowed ourselves to accept."" -- "" Wall Street Journal"" ""Looks beyond the lethal use of force at many other ways the Fourth Amendment protection against 'unreasonable searches and seizures' has been ignored or stretched in the name of public safety."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""Presents an incisive analysis of the pitfalls that have frustrated previous attempts to regulate policing...At once creative and conservative, Friedman offers a timely blueprint for recovering democratic control of local and national law enforcement."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""This important, accessible book diagnoses the many pathologies of modern policing in contexts rangingfrom inner-city crime to terrorism...[Friedman] provides fresh, concrete guidance for how judges and the American people can make modern policing democratically accountable, lawful, and effective."" -- ""Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of law at Harvard University"""

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Barry Friedman is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the director of the Policing Project. For thirty years, he has taught, written about, and litigated issues of constitutional law and criminal procedure. He is the author of The Will of the People. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, and the New Republic, among other publications. He lives in New York City. Sean Pratt, a working actor for over twenty-five years, has performed at numerous regional theaters around the country. He is the author of To Be or Wanna Be, and he has recorded over seven hundred books in just about every genre, earning eight AudioFile Earphones Awards and four Audie Award nominations.

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