No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781573921251)

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.

Author: David B. Kopel, Paul H. Blackman
ISBN-10: 1573921254
ISBN-13: 9781573921251
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1997
Pages: 524
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.36w x 1.61d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/06/1997 pg. 55
Booklist 03/01/1997 pg. 1094