Podcast
99% Invisible
It explored how the rise of automobiles and traffic laws led to increased police power and the evolution of the Fourth Amendment, specifically regarding car searches, ultimately highlighting how this impacted racial disparities in policing.
Sarah Sayo's new book is called policing the open road how cars transformed American freedom and it's basically a historical Analysis of how we got into this situation
— Episode: Policing the Open Road
Episode: Policing the Open Road
It explored how the rise of automobiles and traffic laws led to increased police power and the evolution of the Fourth Amendment, specifically regarding car searches, ultimately highlighting how this impacted racial disparities in policing.
Sarah Sayo's new book is called policing the open road how cars transformed American freedom and it's basically a historical Analysis of how we got into this situation
Say oh brilliantly connects the history of modern policing with the history of the car It's a riveting read in an important book for this moment,
And I think what it brought forward is this idea that it doesn't have to be this way
That's something we also learned from from Sarah Sayo's book
And she said that she thinks it's really exciting and that it's a great way to reduce your bad interactions between the public and the police because traffic stops are the number one way that people come into contact with law enforcement