RT Article
T1 "Cops and the Klan": police disavowal of risk and minimization of threat from the far-right
JF Critical criminology
VO 29
IS 2
SP 215
OP 235
A1 Castle, Taimi
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/183269965X
AB Critical scholars argue that contemporary policing practices reproduce colonial logics through the maintenance of racial and economic inequality. In this article, I extend the framing of policing as a colonial project grounded in white supremacy to an analysis of police responses to white power mobilization during a heightened period of activity and violence (2015-2017). Borrowing from Perry and Scrivens (2018), I identify the two most common police responses - "disavowal of risk" and "minimization of threat" - in the official investigations into the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. Based on an analysis of newspaper reports from across the United States during the two-year period since then, I found that local and federal law enforcement consistently trivialized the presence of white power groups in the community, elevated the potential threat from protestors, concentrated intelligence efforts on activists, and provided differential protection to white supremacists.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 232-235
K1 Rassismus
K1 Polizei
K1 Protestbewegung
K1 Trivialisierung
K1 Eskalation
DO 10.1007/s10612-020-09493-6