Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment Carbado Devon W.
A radical and timely analysis of how constitutional law has been interpreted to afford the police virtually unlimited discretion to use lethal forceThe summer of 2020 will be remembered as the…
Specifikacia Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment Carbado Devon W.
A radical and timely analysis of how constitutional law has been interpreted to afford the police virtually unlimited discretion to use lethal forceThe summer of 2020 will be remembered as the watershed moment in the American struggle for racial equality. Published on the anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, The Precarious Line is a groundbreaking investigation by a leading Constitutional scholar of the role that the Constitution and the law play in the epidemic of police violence against Black people.In this crucially timely and radical book, celebrated UCLA critical legal studies professor Devon Carbado explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct--and every bit as consequential as Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection, and due process. Fourth