Shipler, David K.,  1942- <br/><br/>
The rights of the people :  how our search for safety invades our liberties / 
David K. Shipler. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf,  2011. 
 - xxi, 366 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The Bill of Rights -- Saving the Constitution. The state religion ; Deviations ; Secret suppression ; Criminal acts ; Lawyers versus the rule of law ; Taking changes -- Another country. Frisking pedestrians ; Profiling cars and drivers ; Obtaining consent -- Defending the system. An indifference to perjury ; Discrediting the police ; Sowing reasonable doubt ; The airtight arrest ; Subtle shortcuts -- With warrants and without. Home invasion ; Deterring the police ; Undoing the exclusionary rule ; Suspicionless searches -- Patriotic acts. Sneak and peek ; Junk forensics ; Secret surveillance and self-deception ; The investigator's toolbox -- The law falls silent. The continuum of intrusion ; Data : destroy or disseminate ; Mission creep ; A bigger haystack ; Contempt of court -- The right to be let alone. the poetry of privacy ; The tyranny of technology ; The surveillance-industrial complex ; The privatization of searches -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of terrorists. Rorschach tests ; Terrorism and the Bill of rights ; Conspirators and wannabes -- The High Court of history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400043620 (hbk. : alk. paper) 140004362X (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010034255 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil rights--United States.<br/>Law enforcement--United States.<br/>Rule of law--United States.<br/>Derechos civiles--Estados Unidos.<br/>Derechos humanos--Estados Unidos.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC 599  / S557s 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.0973