Unwarranted, Barry Friedman
Unwarranted, Barry Friedman
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Unwarranted
Policing Without Permission

Author: Barry Friedman

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/21/2017


Synopsis

In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues that these two seemingly disparate events are connected—and that the problem is not so much the policing agencies as it is the rest of us. We allow these agencies to operate in secret and to decide how to police us, rather than calling the shots ourselves. The courts have let us down entirely.

Unwarranted is filled with stories of ordinary people whose lives were sundered by policing gone awry. Driven by technology, policing has changed dramatically from cops seeking out bad guys, to mass surveillance of all of society—backed by an increasingly militarized capability. Friedman captures this new eerie environment in which CCTV, location tracking, and predictive policing has made us all suspects, while proliferating SWAT teams and increased use of force puts everyone at risk.

About Barry Friedman

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on December 29, 2016

This was disappointing. Not egregiously bad at any certain points, but just underwhelming. It had a lot of fair points to be made, but nothing much that really compelled me to take action, or to share something I learned back with a friend. I agree for the most part with everything he presents here,......more

Goodreads review by Bert on November 08, 2023

I had forgotten about the flashbang in a baby’s crib… I like to imagine most people against police reform / oversight as quoting Michael Scott saying “Truth be told, I think I thrive under a lack of accountability.“ as part of their daily affirmations ritual.......more

Goodreads review by Jules on November 28, 2019

Unwarranted: Policing without Permission Written by Barry Friedman. A description of Mr. Friedman on Amazon’s website is as follows: Barry Friedman serves as the Director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law, where he is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated P......more

Goodreads review by Sam on September 14, 2017

In Unwarranted Friedman addresses the battle between police and government agencies rights to do searches using advanced technology versus our rights to privacy as citizens with inalienable rights. Much of it focuses on the stretching of reasonable cause, sampling, and other age old legal questions,......more