Abstract
Abolition captured national attention in 2020 following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Despite this attention, stakeholders favoring traditional legal reforms remain skeptical about the abolitionist demand to gradually eliminate police and prisons. Abolitionists, in contrast, have sought to identify how the Constitution can be interpreted to create a society that has no need for prisons. In his book, Unreasonable, Professor Devon W. Carbado offers an analysis of policing power and interpersonal violence that can aid traditional reformers in understanding just why abolitionists call for the elimination of the prison industrial complex. Further, his new interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, offered in the final chapter of the book, can aid abolitionists in identifying just how the Constitution could be utilized to curtail police power and reach an abolitionist horizon.