Do Police Sometimes Practice 'Civil Disobedience', Too?

Authors

Yale Kamisar, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1968

Abstract

In a recent address, Mr. Joseph J. Casper, Assistant Director of the FBI, asserted that "a society living under the rule of law cannot permit persons to choose the Jaws which they will obey and the Jaws which they will break." But on reading the rest of his speech, one wonders whether he would strenuously object if the police were permitted to select the laws which they must obey and those they may disregard.

Recommended Citation

Kamisar, Yale. "Do Police Sometimes Practice 'Civil Disobedience', Too?" Trial 4 (1968): 15, 17, 54.