The Slow Violence Of Contemporary Policing. In this review we describe the slow violence that contemporary policing practices disproportionately inflict on people of color. Keywords asylum necropolitics postcolonial slow violence welfare Introduction Over the past two decades governments across Europe and indeed the Global North more broadly have pursued immigration policies which seek to exclude migrants.
Search the worlds most comprehensive index of full-text books. The revelation that a serving police officer had been arrested for Everards murder alongside shocking images of police brutality towards those attending the vigil in her name reinforced. The underlying problem with policing isnt just the lack of oversight policies more training and better procedures.
The concept of slow violence addresses the perceptual and communication challenges associated with phenomena that seem to exceed human scale in their size and pace too small too large too rapid too gradual to be perceived through human sensory capabilities.
Consider the 26th which encompasses Fishtown and. The slow violence that the community of Freetown is facing is a form of environmental injustice that can more specifically be viewed as environmental racism Bullard 1990. Police departments have increasingly been criticized of unequal enforcement racial profiling militarization and excessive use of force especially against people of color. Slow violence can fuel long-term proliferating conflicts wrought from.