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From Selma To Ferguson: The Voting Rights Act As A Blueprint For Police Reform, Stephen Rushin
From Selma To Ferguson: The Voting Rights Act As A Blueprint For Police Reform, Stephen Rushin
Stephen Rushin
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 revolutionized access to the voting booth. Rather than responding to claims of voter suppression through litigation against individual states or localities, the Voting Rights Act introduced a coverage formula that preemptively regulated a large number of localities across the country. In doing so, the Voting Rights Act replaced reactive, piecemeal litigation with a proactive structure of continual federal oversight. As the most successful civil rights law in the nation's history, the Voting Rights Act provides a blueprint for responding to one of the most pressing civil rights problems the country faces today: police misconduct. …