Carbado, Devon W.

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“Fourth Amendment law more generally, provides police officers with an opportunity to target African Americans without violating the law. The over-policing of African Americans… is a problem of bad laws, and not just bad police officers."

“The Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourth Amendment to enable and sometimes expressly legalize racial profiling… [which] exposes African Americans not only to the violence of ongoing police surveillance and contact but also to the violence of serious bodily injury."

“An officer’s testimony that he/she feared for his/her life, that he/she was in a high-crime area, that it was late at night, and that he/she thought the suspect had a gun, will often be enough to support the conclusion that the officer acted reasonably."

“Fram[ing] excessive force as a problem that derives from rogue police officers … obscures the structural dimensions of police violence and ignores … that conscious racial animosity likely accounts for a small percentage of racially-inflicted police conduct."