Reexamining the Posse Comitatus Act: Toward a Right to Civil Law Enforcement

Abstract

On an early March day, several hundred protestors marched up Washington Street in Boston. The demonstration started in the Roxbury neighborhood and was to pass through Downtown Crossing, past monuments of the American Revolution like the Old South Meeting House and the Old State House, to historic Faneuil Hall. At the head of the predominately minority crowd walked the Reverend Ignatius Waters.