Policing the Racialised Other

Abstract

This chapter offers a critical analyses of the emergence of the police through imperial linkages (Cole in Policing Across the World: Issues for the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, Abingdon, 1999). It reflects upon the impact that this has upon the policing of Black communities contemporarily, significantly with regard to over policing through stop and search and evaluates scholarly explanations. It continues in this regard, to consider the use and abuse of police force and disproportionate Black deaths in police custody. In order to situate this book within the broader field of literature, police culture as an explanation for the endurance of racism within the police service will be addressed. The chapter will conclude that the role and function of the police service is incongruous with the notion of consensual policing, particularly in regards to the policing of the racialised Other