The Core Argument
Racial disproportionality in British policing is not produced primarily by individual prejudice. It is produced by frameworks, categories, and professional cultures that were built in colonial contexts and have been transmitted across generations of practitioners who absorbed them as common sense rather than as choices. An officer does not need to hold racist attitudes to make decisions shaped by racist assumptions. Those assumptions are embedded in the method itself — in the risk categories, the intelligence frameworks, the operational doctrines, and the informal professional knowledge through which policing practice is learned and reproduced.
What This Looks Like in Practice
A sergeant briefing his team before a patrol…
A risk panel meets to review a Prevent referral…
A police use of force review finds that…
A diversity lead presents data showing that…
The Questions This Raises
What the Evidence Shows
One Practical Commitment
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