Unreasonable : black lives, police power, and the Fourth Amendment / Devon W. Carbado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carbado, Devon W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--4th Amendment.

United States.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Stop and frisk (Law enforcement)--United States.

Stop and frisk (Law enforcement).

Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States.

Racial profiling in law enforcement.

Searches and seizures--United States.

Searches and seizures.

Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.

Discrimination in law enforcement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Black lives, police power, and the Fourth Amendment

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : The New Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Pedestrian checks

Traffic stops

Stop-and-frisk

Stop-and-strip

Predatory policing

Unreasonable

Reasonable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed June 22, 2022).

ISBN:

9781620974254

1620974258

OCLC:

1292363210