Joanna Schwartz on Shielded

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

According to University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Joanna Schwartz, in recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abuses of power—the decisions of the Supreme Court, state and local governments, and policy makers have, over decades, made the police all but untouchable. Join us when one of the country's leading scholars on policing Joanna Schwartz examines her book which exposes the myriad ways in which our legal system protects police at all costs, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.