From ‘criminal tribes’ to ‘high risk communities,’ racial tropes built in empire still shape policing today

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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home — Part 1 rangerblackwood.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...

Colonial policing methods—suspicion, control, racialised risk—became British policing traditions and persist in modern policing.”
O.2 — The Imperial Boomerang: How Overseas Tactics Came Home — Part 4 rangerblackwood.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/o...

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Colonial officers brought imperial mindsets home, shaping British policing culture through race, hierarchy and suspicion
O.2 — The Imperial Boomerang: How Overseas Tactics Came Home — Part 3 rangerblackwood.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/o...

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Colonial methods—surveillance, pre‑emptive arrests, riot control—became the DNA of British policing
O.2 — The Imperial Boomerang: How Overseas Tactics Came Home — Part 2 rangerblackwood.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/o...

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O.2 — The Imperial Boomerang: How Overseas Tactics Came Home — Part 1 rangerblackwood.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/o...

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📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Such an important investigation into the creation of the NYP, and policing as we have come to know it. What Chenjerai uncovers in this deliberately hidden history, is directly tied to the mess we are facing now. #historyofpolicing #empirecity #ChenjeraiKumanyika