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No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It Hardcover - 1997

by David B. Kopel; Paul H. Blackman

Meticulously documented, this volume contains more than 1,500 endnotes which aid in analyzing all side of the complex issue of the role of federal law enforcement and the risks that their enormous powers pose to individual rights, judicial authority, and arrest procedures in the name of public safety. Photos.


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Waco and Ruby Ridge were neither conspiracies nor flukes. They represent the worst-case scenario of problems that now plague federal law enforcement, including its militarisation, judicial rubberstamping of search and arrest applications, aggressive and violent arrest procedures, indifference to religious beliefs, the complicity of an overzealous media, and failed congressional investigations. In "No More Wacos", David B. Kopel and Paul H. Blackman use their expertise in law and criminology to outline the evidence in these cases and dozens of others to explain how and why such tragedies occur. Meticulously documented, this volume analyses all sides of this complex subject: flawed search warrants, authorities ignoring the difference between religious and criminal suspects, and intra-governmental deception, among other issues. Whenever problems are found, specific remedies are proposed - over one hundred solutions in all - both comprehensive and technical in nature. Each is offered in the hope of preventing future Wacos by properly placing federal law enforcement under the rule of law.

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  • Title No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It
  • Author David B. Kopel; Paul H. Blackman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 524
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781573921251 / 1573921254
  • Weight 1.98 lbs (0.90 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.36 x 1.61 in (23.62 x 16.15 x 4.09 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Law enforcement - United States, Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-37639
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.209

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/1997, Page 1094
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/06/1997, Page 55

About the author

David Kopel is associate policy analyst for the CATO Institute, research director at the Independence Institute, and adjunct professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University, Sturm College of Law. He is the author of The Truth about Gun Control, No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement, and How to Fix It, Antitrust After Microsoft, The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?, and nine other books. He is an expert on firearms policy, juvenile crime, drug policy, antitrust, constitutional law, criminal sentencing, and environmental law. Paul H. Blackman, PhD, a criminologist, is research coordinator for the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action.
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