From compromise to counter-insurgency: Variations in the racial politics of community policing in Montreal

Rutland, Ted

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.11.003

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“…Analyzing informational flows reinforced both that networks are prone to controversies (Bracey, 2015;Riles, 2000), but also that like other community-based policing programs, controversies provoke institutional attempts at compromise through policy changes that can harm the communities that police aim to serve (Rutland, 2021) despite their claim to protect the interests of marginalized groups (Bell, 2004). For LAPD, SO40 was one of the many racial melodramas that it has confronted historically in the Latino migrant community.…”

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“…They are in effect checks on Latino deservingness and belonging. Mazzola (2023) and Rutland (2021) might also agree that institutional structures arranged to search for evidence of strangerhood are counterinsurgency tools in the state's larger war on immigrants.…”

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“…And, according to LAPD policy memos, building such ties is an indispensable duty of the SLO (Gascón and Roussell, 2019;LAPD, 1992). This is an initial phase of the police-public relationship-building and serves to set up later collaborations (Rutland, 2021). Critical police scholars (see Felker-Kantor, 2018;McQuade, 2019;Rodriguez, 2021), though, warn that such pressure for deeper state penetration into hard-to-reach communities mimic the tactics of war.…”

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The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles

Gascón

2023

Critical Sociology

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This article examines the nature, movement, and controversies of the information flowing through a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) community-based program in a predominantly Latino migrant neighborhood of South Los Angeles known as ‘the Hispanic Outreach’ (HO). Combining Actor-Network and Critical Race theories enables me to examine the world of police and Latino civilians through the groups, social actions, facts, and objects that compose it, as one single, unified set of interwoven associations and processes. Findings show that the HO claims to serve the public’s interests in safety in high crime environments but instead stirs local interracial conflict and Latino residents’ fears over questions of citizenship, belonging, and access to resources, and deepens state penetration into communities it deems as racial threats. I show how networks are state tools that reproduce and reinforce racial power and situate these findings within the field of Critical Sociology, particularly the areas of policing and Latino studies. And this article ends with a discussion of several potential research directions.

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The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles

Gascón

2023

Critical Sociology

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“…Police, particularly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have been deployed to protect settler government interests in "critical infrastructure" such as extractive oil and gas infrastructure (Crosby and Monaghan 2018;Maile 2019;Crosby 2021). When municipal policing is considered, it is often framed through the process of racialized policing, over-policing, and police violence (Dhillon 2017;Maynard 2017;Comack 2019;Rutland 2021). 7 While scholars have yet to acknowledge that the primary effect of policing is the white possession of Indigenous sovereignty through the discursive misrecognition of Indigenous peoples as statistical populations and individuals (Andersen 2008;Walter and Andersen 2013), these interventions are necessary areas of study for understanding the ongoing connections between policing, racialized violence, and settler colonialism.…”

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The Food Police: The White Possessive Securitization of Winnipeg Food Spaces

Daborn¹

2022

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Grocery shopping is one of the most necessary everyday practices when it comes to being food secure. Food security is frequently spatially imagined along two axes – access and health. I highlight the specific conditions of existence for food insecure citizens in Winnipeg to demonstrate the incommensurability of how food insecurity is imagined and intervened upon, or not, through municipal policy. Drawing on Critical Indigenous Studies scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s theorizations of white possession, I establish a framework of white possessive securitization to interrogate the dynamics between policy, policing, and securitization of space that results in Indigenous people being subjected to multiple modes of policing when grocery shopping. With white possessive securitization, I trace how individual settler citizens operate as self-governing subjects to police Indigenous people in the city while carrying out the aims of white patriarchal sovereignty – to secure private property. I provide three vignettes of the intersections of municipal policy and the policing of food by focussing on municipal budgets, securitization of public-private space, and grocery stores. These vignettes delineate how policing in grocery stores interfere with Indigenous food security and are inseparable from inflated municipal policing budgets, austerity measures that reduce community services, increased surveillance, threats of violence, and the undiscriminating implementation of the rule of law by individual settler citizens who through rationalities of governmentality are the police.

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“…By the late 1980s, references to Black ‘ghettos’ became commonplace, especially as the police began a mediatized campaign against supposed Black gang members and drug dealers (see Rutland, 2021 ). These areas, to be clear, bore little resemblance to the racially segregated Black neighbourhoods of some US cities.…”

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Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal

Rutland

2021

Environ Plan D

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Property relations in 1980s Montreal were a venue of struggle and change. In this period, a well-organized tenants’ movement and the election of progressive governments spawned a series of legal and policy changes that strengthened tenants’ rights in the city. During the same period, however, an emerging police, government and media discourse cast Black communities as criminal ‘ghettos’, and a variety of mechanisms, including new policies meant to protect tenants’ rights, were used to evict criminalized Black tenants. Guided by recent work on property and Black geographies, respectively, this article examines how racial subjects are constituted in struggles over tenants’ rights. The racial limits of tenants’ rights in Montreal, it argues, are traceable to the socio-spatial relations of slavery and the intensifying criminalization of Black life in the 1980s, each of which nullified Black spatial belonging in the city. The tenant, the article concludes, is never just a tenant, but also a racial subject – a subject formed at the edges of blackness. In a terrain forged by slavery and its afterlives, the possibility of expansive tenants’ rights presupposes a right systemically denied in advance for Black people in the Americas: the right to exist here in the first place.

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From compromise to counter-insurgency: Variations in the racial politics of community policing in Montreal

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles

The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles

The Food Police: The White Possessive Securitization of Winnipeg Food Spaces

Nowhere land: The evicted space of Black tenants’ rights in Montreal

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