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The Precarious Line - Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment (Hardcover)
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The Precarious Line - Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment (Hardcover)
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How the Supreme Court's decision to treat unreasonable policing as
reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance
between life and death for Black people The summer of 2020 will be
remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle
for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the
global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and
Breonna Taylor, Unreasonable is a groundbreaking investigation of
the role that the law-and the U.S. Constitution-play 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, and it determines the
precarious line between stopping Black people and killing Black
people. A leading light in the critical race studies movement,
Carbado looks at how that text, in the last four decades, has been
interpreted by the Supreme Court to protect police officers, not
African Americans; how it sanctions search and seizure as well as
profiling; and how it has become, ultimately, an amendment of life
and death. Accessible, radical, and essential reading, Unreasonable
sheds light on a rarely understood dimension of today's most
pressing issue.
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