Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Touro Law Review
Abstract
This article argues that concern with reforming the police will not fully deter the emergence of an American police state or significantly reduce the misuse power of by law enforcement agencies. The police are not the problem; the problem is higher up. Undoubtedly, there are rogue police officers who commit heinous acts, up to and including murder. There are rogues in every occupation. Steps are needed to minimize the number of rogues, although they can never be entirely eliminated. It is far more important to pay close attention, not to occasional rogue police officers, but to the institutional structures and institutional actors other than police on the beat who support, engage in, and indeed, strive to legitimate roguish law enforcement behavior.
First Page
709
Volume
33
Publication Date
2017
Recommended Citation
Wiiliam E. Nelson,
The Emerging American Police State: The Problem Is Not With the Police, But Higher Up,
33
Touro Law Review
709
(2017).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/861
