Wake-Up Call: Policing Privilege and Reclaiming Our Unalienable Rights

On January 25 2015 in Sonoma California Larry Bearg--white educated middle-aged and middle-class--was arrested for growing medical marijuana. Before he was even charged with a crime the police emptied his bank accounts considered seizing his home and paraded him handcuffed in front of his neighbors. Bearg was outraged. What about being innocent until proven guilty? What about his rights? Three months later in North Charleston South Carolina Walter Scott a black man was shot and killed during a traffic stop while fleeing from the officer who shot him. The story made national headlines. What about his rights? In Wake-up Call a well-researched as well as a deeply personal book Bearg searches to understand how his rights Walter Scotts rights and the rights of all Americans no matter their race have changed beyond recognition over the past fifty years--and how police have accumulated extraordinary new powers at our expense selectively enforcing the law by granting us privileges rather than honoring our rights. What makes Wake-up Call unique compelling and timely is that Bearg concludes with concrete suggestions about what we the citizens of the United States can do to reclaim the freedoms granted to us in our Constitution before its too late.