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Those seeking to end the discriminatory abuse, even murder, of African American men by police need a program to pursue, and in Presumed Guilty, Erwin Chemerinsky offers a very necessary one. Civil rights activists would do well to abandon the fantasy that the Warren Court's few years of care about Black lives can return, and instead heed this advice to turn their gaze to state capitals.--Richard Rothstein, New York Times best-selling author of The Color of LawErwin Chemerinsky's Presumed Guilty offers a truly compelling and wonderfully accessible analysis of how the Supreme Court has seriously undermined civil rights in the realm of policing, especially over the last half-century. . . . Every American should read this book. It is eye-opening, insightful, and inspiring in a way we need today more than ever.--Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in WartimeIncredibly insightful and powerfully written, Presumed Guilty could not be more timely. The work crystallizes the urgency for state-level reform in the form of much-needed legislation that would provide meaningful solutions to police use of excessive force.--George Gascón, Los Angeles district attorneyIf, as this essential accounting of our highest court's responsibility for police abuses over the course of American history hopefully puts it, 'there will come a time, sooner than we might think, that the breezes of justice might surprisingly turn in an unexpected direction, ' it will be in no small part because Dean Chemerinsky brilliantly pointed the way. Written for that future, Presumed Guilty is must-reading for the present.--Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard UniversityAnyone interested in reimagining American policing will benefit from this comprehensive historic survey of judicial failure, and suggestion for alternate avenues for reform. With Presumed Guilty, Chemerinsky both fills the gaps in our public conversation, and points a way forward for meaningful, achievable change.--Dahlia Lithwick, senior legal correspondent for Slate Erwin Chemerinsky, a national treasure in the field of constitutional law, makes a lucid and compelling case that the Supreme Court has all too often failed to ensure equal justice in the criminal legal system.--David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union