Guarding Against Unreasonable Force

A documentary-style book cover presents a tense street scene in which uniformed officers restrain or escort several people near a storefront, their raised arms and clustered bodies creating a compressed sense of confrontation. Bold white and brown typography frames the photograph, while the subtitle about searches and seizures establishes a legal and civil-rights context. The stark layout and cropped figures give the piece the direct, urgent character of investigative nonfiction.