Badges without Borders

Schrader, Stuart

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“…As Stuart Schrader shows, the security experts who developed counter-insurgency doctrine and practices did so by drawing initially on insights from domestic cases, which they then applied abroad, learning lessons that were subsequently brought back home. 44 Saigon and Los Angeles were but two points in an emerging global grand strategy designed to restore order and uS economic and military hegemony.…”

Section: Imperial Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Laleh Khalili writes, the 'population is the prize', 67 while Schrader contends that the 'fear of losing mass loyalty' is a central 'characteristic of uS counter-insurgency theory'. 68 This meant that it was necessary to identify existing and emergent threats and neutralise or pacify them. The Arab American Left presented such a threat.…”

Section: The Practice Of Terrorcraftmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Terrorcraft: empire and the making of the racialised terrorist threat

Kumar¹

2020

Race & Class

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Terrorism is so associated with Arabs, Muslims and South Asians that it has become common sense in the post 9/11 world. Drawing on various bodies of scholarship, this article traces the complex evolution of ‘race’ in relation to Arabs and Muslims from the 1960s to mid-’80s, alongside changing notions of ‘terrorism’, to advance an argument about the historically contingent nature of the racialised terrorist threat. The author argues that ‘terrorcraft’ – or terrorist racialisation – is a process. First, the racialised terrorist was crafted deep in the US empire. Counter-insurgency doctrine was instrumental in the US security state’s creation of the ‘Arab terrorist’ through racial profiling. Second, the ideology of terrorcraft followed, rather than preceded, the security state’s racialising practices, though racial stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims pre-date the 1960s. The ‘Arab terrorist’ is a new project of racial formation, the author argues. Third, the US’s strategic alliance with Israel after 1967 and two conferences organised by the Israeli Jonathan Institute laid the basis for the transatlantic production of terrorcraft. Over time, it evolved from its initial focus on Arabs to include Muslims during the 1980s and South Asians in the 1990s.

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Section: Imperial Contextmentioning

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Section: The Practice Of Terrorcraftmentioning

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Terrorcraft: empire and the making of the racialised terrorist threat

Kumar¹

2020

Race & Class

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“…Akin to the military, members are selected based on rigorous standards and qualifications from within the police force and trained to high levels of proficiency, and they employ a variety of weapons, tools, and vehicles in aggressive law enforcement. The Los Angeles Police Department first introduced the SWAT concept in 1967 based on United States Marine Corps training and Vietnam war veterans recruited into the police force after the Watts riots (Alvaro, 2000;Schrader, 2019). The RCMP's tactical weapons unit comprised of expert marksmen with rifles, assaulters using cast-off military equipment, and designated trained negotiators came together in the mid-1970s for the United Nations Habitat conference in Vancouver and the Olympic summer games in Montreal, working closely with the Canadian military.…”

Section: Focus On Specialised Unitsmentioning

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Green is the New Black: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Militarisation of Policing in Canada

Madsen

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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Policing American Cities: Crisis and Reform from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Umbach

2021

Handbook of Issues in Criminal Justice Reform in the United States

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The history of policing in America cities since the colonial period has been shaped by the country's distinctive legal culture and political traditions (leading to fragmented, local control), by power struggles of class, ethnicity, and race (leading to corrupt, unequal, and often abusive policing), but also by cycles of reform (leading to distinct eras of policing styles). Urban policing has both reflected larger historical forces and trends-including industrialization, demographic change, capitalist transformation-and become one itself, shaping the outcomes of social conflict and much of the daily lives of city residents. Technological change, likewise, has remade both the legal relationship between citizens and law enforcement and the supervisory relationship between police officers and police administrators. Awareness of this broader history underscores the malleability of seemingly fixed cultural concepts-notably those of race, rights, and resistance-as well as highlights the possibility and limits of efforts to reform American policing.

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Badges without Borders

Cited by 25 publications

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Terrorcraft: empire and the making of the racialised terrorist threat

Terrorcraft: empire and the making of the racialised terrorist threat

Green is the New Black: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Militarisation of Policing in Canada

Policing American Cities: Crisis and Reform from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

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