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Sarah A. Seo is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa and author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Before the mass adoption of the car, most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.
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