Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize
Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award

How the rise of the car, the symbol of American personal freedom, inadvertently led to ever more intrusive policing—with disastrous consequences for racial equality in our criminal justice system.

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the r...