Walter P. Signorelli is Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Law and Police Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and a practicing criminal defense attorney. Signorelli was a member of the New York City Police Department for more than thirty years. He retired as an Inspector in the Detective Division having been the commanding officer of precincts in Brooklyn and Manhattan, in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, and in the Narcotics Division. He is a graduate of St. John's University School of Law, cum laude, and the Columbia University Police Management Institute. He is the author of The Crisis of Police Liability Lawsuits: Prevention and Management (2006), The Constable Has Blundered: The Exclusionary Rule, Crime, and Corruption (2010), Rome and America: The Great Republics: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States (2018), and Tiberius Bound (2022).

Section I: Overview 1. Balancing Law Enforcement and Individual Rights 2. Social Control in a Free Society 3. A Bill of Rights Summary Section II: Crime and Due Process Protections 4. Development of Due Process Protections 5. Principles of Criminal Law 6. Crimes and Punishments 7. The Exclusionary Rule and the Fourth Amendment Section III: Search and Seizure 8. Search Warrants 9. The Law of Arrest 10. Searches without Warrants 11. A Not So Uncommon Police/Citizen Encounter 12. Stop, Question, and Frisk 13. Consent Searches 14. Search and Seizure of Vehicles and Occupants Section IV: The Individual as the Subject of Government Investigation 15. The Privilege against Compelled Self-incrimination and Miranda v. Arizona 16. Refining Miranda 17. The Right to Counsel 18. Evidence and Due Process 19. Identifications and Due Process 20. The Right of Confrontation 21. Government Surveillance 22. Terrorism and the PATRIOT Act