Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The Supreme Court, race, and policing -- "I Can't Breathe" : why courts can't stop police from using chokeholds -- Confronting the realities of race and policing -- The Supreme Court's essential role in enforcing the Constitution and controlling police -- Part II: A minimal judicial role : the Court and policing before 1953 -- Why the Supreme Court ignored policing for much of American history -- Judicial silence on Constitutional protections and remedies before 1953 -- Part III: The Warren Court : finally enforcing constitutional protections and remedies -- "Each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind" : applying the Bill of Rights to state and local police -- Both limiting and empowering police : the Warren Court and the Fourth Amendment -- Miranda : trying to solve the problem of coercion in police interrogations -- Protecting the innocent from wrongful convictions : safeguards against false eyewitness identifications -- Rights need remedies -- Part IV: Retrenchment : the Burger Court limits constitutional rights -- "Only the guilty have something to hide" : undermining Fourth Amendment protections -- Hollowing out Miranda -- Refusing to check police eyewitness identification procedures -- Eroding remedies for police misconduct -- Part V: Empowering police : the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts -- The police can stop anyone, at any time, and search them -- You don't really have the right to remain silent -- Ignoring the problem of false eyewitness identifications -- The vanishing remedies for police misconduct -- Part VI: It can be done : overcoming the Supreme Court to reform policing -- The path to meaningful police reform.