Unreasonable : Black lives, police power, and the fourth amendment /
Carbado, Devon W.,
Unreasonable : Black lives, police power, and the fourth amendment / Unreasonable Black lives, police power, and the fourth amendment Devon W. Carbado. - 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-280) and index.
Pedestrian checks -- Traffic stops -- Stop-and-frisk -- Stop-and-strip -- Predatory policing -- Unreasonable -- Reasonable.
"Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, UNREASONABLE is a ground-breaking investigation of the role that the U.S. Constitution plays in the epidemic of police violence against Black people. In this crucially timely book, celebrated legal scholar Devon W. Carbado explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct -- more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection, and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how the police can make arrests, stop-and-frisk, conduct traffic stops, and employ deadly force -- and Fourth Amendment law legitimizes the treatment of Black people as what the book calls 'runaway criminals.' Drawing on the narratives behind and the outcomes of key Supreme Court cases that everyone should know, Carbado shows how, in the last four decades, the Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourth Amendment to protect police officers, not African Americans; how the Fourth Amendment sanctions racialized policing; and how that amendment has become a body of constitutional law that manages the precarious line between stopping Black people and killing Black people. Accessible, compelling, and essential reading, UNREASONABLE offers a 'people's' account of the Fourth Amendment that sheds light on a critical but rarely understood dimension of a pressing social issue."--The book jacket
162097424X 9781620974247
GBC253895 bnb
020533559 Uk
United States. 4th Amendment. Constitution.
Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.
Discrimination in law enforcement--History--United States--21st century.
Searches and seizures--United States.
Searches and seizures--History--United States--21st century.
Stop and frisk (Law enforcement)--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Violence against.
African Americans--Violence against--History--21st century.
Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
Racial profiling in law enforcement--History--United States--21st century.
Police brutality--United States.
Police brutality--History--United States--21st century.
Unreasonable : Black lives, police power, and the fourth amendment / Unreasonable Black lives, police power, and the fourth amendment Devon W. Carbado. - 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-280) and index.
Pedestrian checks -- Traffic stops -- Stop-and-frisk -- Stop-and-strip -- Predatory policing -- Unreasonable -- Reasonable.
"Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, UNREASONABLE is a ground-breaking investigation of the role that the U.S. Constitution plays in the epidemic of police violence against Black people. In this crucially timely book, celebrated legal scholar Devon W. Carbado explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct -- more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection, and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how the police can make arrests, stop-and-frisk, conduct traffic stops, and employ deadly force -- and Fourth Amendment law legitimizes the treatment of Black people as what the book calls 'runaway criminals.' Drawing on the narratives behind and the outcomes of key Supreme Court cases that everyone should know, Carbado shows how, in the last four decades, the Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourth Amendment to protect police officers, not African Americans; how the Fourth Amendment sanctions racialized policing; and how that amendment has become a body of constitutional law that manages the precarious line between stopping Black people and killing Black people. Accessible, compelling, and essential reading, UNREASONABLE offers a 'people's' account of the Fourth Amendment that sheds light on a critical but rarely understood dimension of a pressing social issue."--The book jacket
162097424X 9781620974247
GBC253895 bnb
020533559 Uk
United States. 4th Amendment. Constitution.
Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.
Discrimination in law enforcement--History--United States--21st century.
Searches and seizures--United States.
Searches and seizures--History--United States--21st century.
Stop and frisk (Law enforcement)--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Violence against.
African Americans--Violence against--History--21st century.
Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.
Racial profiling in law enforcement--History--United States--21st century.
Police brutality--United States.
Police brutality--History--United States--21st century.