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A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment. An expert whose writing, teaching and community outreach centers on the Constitution's limits on police power, Howard Law Professor Josephine Ross, argues that our constitutional rights are a mirage. In reality, we can't say no when police seek to question or search us. Building on feminist principles, Ross demonstrates why the Supreme Court got it wrong when it allowed police to stop, search, and sometimes strip-search people and call it consent. Using a wide range of sources - including her law students' experiences with police, news stories about Eric Garner, and Sandra Bland, social science and the work of James Baldwin - Ross sheds new light on policing. This book should be read by everyone interested in how Court-approved police stops sap everyone's constitutional rights and how this form of policing can be eliminated.

Stop and frisk (Law enforcement) --- Rape --- Feminist criticism --- Searches and seizures --- Criticism --- Assault, Criminal (Rape) --- Assault, Sexual --- Criminal assault (Rape) --- Nonconsensual sexual intercourse --- Sexual assault --- Offenses against the person --- Sex crimes --- Field stop (Law enforcement) --- Investigatory stop (Law enforcement) --- Stop, question, and frisk (Law enforcement) --- Stop, Field (Law enforcement) --- Stop, Investigatory (Law enforcement) --- Stop, Terry (Law enforcement) --- Terry stop (Law enforcement) --- Law enforcement --- Police patrol --- Law and legislation --- Field interrogation --- Forced sexual intercourse --- Forced sexual penetration --- Penetration, Forced sexual --- Sexual intercourse, Forced --- Sexual intercourse, Nonconsensual --- Sexual penetration, Forced