The Chris Hedges Report Show with Professor Joanna Schwartz on her book "Shielded: How Police Became Untouchable

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The police in the United States, through a series of Supreme Court decisions, as well as policies enacted by state and city governments, have become largely immune from prosecution, even when they commit serious felonies such as murder. Police officers are criminally charged in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings and convicted in less than one-third …