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Past conversations and analyses, organized so that you can follow issues across time.
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O.4 — The Dangerous Classes: How Victorian Britain Invented an Internal Enemy (Part 1)
Discover how Victorian Britain used the myth of “dangerous classes” to justify new policing, surveillance, and social control — a blueprint that still shapes policing today.
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PRACTITIONER BRIEF 0.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing
Racial disproportionality in British policing is not produced primarily by individual prejudice, but by frameworks, that were built in colonial contexts and transmitted across generations as common sense rather than as choices
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 7)
The afterlife of empire is not a metaphor, it’s the organising logic of modern British policing
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 6)
How the governing logic of British policing has remained structurally consistent across time — even if the language has shifted
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 5)
The history of racialised policing in Britain is not only a history of harm imposed and endured. It is also a history of sustained, organised, and often courageous resistance.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 4)
Racialised policing is not accidental. It is the afterlife of empire, built into systems, categories, and everyday practice. Understanding this history is key to change.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 3)
Race was not incidental to British policing, it was architectural — built into the frameworks, categories, and professional cultures through which policing has operated since its imperial foundations were laid.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 2)
When large-scale migration, primarily from the Caribbean, South Asia, and Africa began after the Second World War, British institutions were not encountering difference for the first time.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 1)
From ‘criminal tribes’ to ‘high risk communities,’ racial tropes built in empire still shape policing today
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