This book is designed to be used in the college classroom, the academy training course, and the personal reference library. It is a combination civil justice text, road map to the civil justice system, and academic treatise on the basic law of police liability. The first of three sections in this book concerns why police officers are sued, and the future of police civil liability suits. Section Two, entitled The Anatomy of a Police Liability Lawsuit, describes the case, the initial inquiry, the answer, discovery, adjudication without trial, the trial, and posttrial procedure. Section Three includes the early foundations of police liability, tort claims against the police (prosecution, exemptions and defense), constitutional issues, enforcing constitutional and statutory claims under Section 1983, and qualified immunity issues. An appendix contains the Constitution of the United States. Footnotes