{"pk":31535,"title":"Search and Seizure Budgets","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p><em>This Article proposes a new means of restraining police power: quantitative limits on </em><em>the number of law enforcement intrusions—searches and seizures—that may occur over a </em><em>given period of time. Like monetary constraints, search and seizure budgets would aim to curb </em><em>abusive policing and improve democratic oversight. But unlike their monetary counterparts, </em><em>budgets would be indexed directly to the specific police activities that most enable escalation </em><em>and abuse. What is more, budgets are a tool that finds support, conceptually, in the American </em><em>framing experience. The Fourth Amendment has long been understood to require procedural </em><em>limits, such as probable cause, on specific police intrusions. But such requirements are only </em><em>part of the story; limits on overall police capacity, we argue, are also hardwired into the Fourth </em><em>Amendment via its founding era history. Search and seizure budgets would help reinvigorate </em><em>that promise, offering an important tool in the ongoing effort to curb over-criminalization and </em><em>the ever-expanding technologies of surveillance.</em></p>","language":null,"license":{"name":"All rights reserved","short_name":"Copyright","text":"© the author(s). All rights reserved.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors"},"keywords":[],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61v348ww","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kiel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brennan-Marquez","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Henderson","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2023-03-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucilr/article/31535/galley/22604/download/"}]}