Police violence and racial profiling

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Quotes

« 49 %. This is the proportion of black and mixed-race people of black descent who have already been controlled at least once by the police. A figure twice as high as for the French population as a whole (23%). »

Elisa Covo, « Discrimination barometer reveals the extent of anti-black racism in France », Madmoizelle.com, February 16, 2023

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References

• Revelations about the Zecler affair

Justifications

• Disproportionate use of force
• Racist attacks
• Active complicity of the IGPN
• Persons convicted on the basis of false police statements
• Police assume they are carrying out ideologically-oriented persecution
• Under the same act and circumstances, a criminal conviction will be more severe if the person is racialized.
• Police racism is denounced by people who are themselves (ex-)police officers
• Police harassment in the suburbs
• Exchanging racist remarks off the record
• Facial control

Objections

• The police are themselves of mixed race, so they cannot be structurally racist.
• There are racist acts committed by police officers, but we cannot incriminate the police in general for these ultra-minority abuses.
• Many delinquents are young men from working-class neighborhoods; it's an effect of the composition of these neighborhoods that the police control racialized people.
• Cases of police violence are controversial, the public sees them as "racist" and the courts often exonerate the police in the end.
• Fake news" circulating about the number of victims of police violence
• Fortunately, police violence is still rare compared to the pressure and attacks they face, particularly in working-class neighbourhoods.

Parent debate

• Should the police be abolished?