Efforts to understand racial inequality in policing often focus on the micro-level, examining the situational dynamics of police-citizen encounters. This Article explores racial inequality in policing from another angle: it asks how the police organization responds to and further constructs the surrounding urban environment. I examine a police department’s move toward local and decentralized approaches, captured in a redistricting reform and subsequent district-level strategies and initiatives. I draw on several sources of data, including public documents, in-depth interviews with decision makers and stakeholders, a year of ethnographic observation of police work in two districts, and data on calls for police service. I find that the police drew upon symbolic ideas that emphasized the violence of black neighborhoods and the economic value of white neighborhoods in developing local strategies. As they acted in relation to these distinctions, the police amplified disparities in service provision and social control, consolidating the character of an already segregated and unequal landscape

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警察作为地方巩固者：城市不平等的组织放大

理解警务中种族不平等的努力通常集中在微观层面，检查警察与公民相遇的情境动态。本文从另一个角度探讨警务中的种族不平等：它询问警察组织如何应对并进一步构建周边城市环境。我研究了警察部门向地方和分散化方法的转变，这些方法体现在重新分区改革和随后的地区级战略和倡议中。我利用了几个数据来源，包括公共文件、对决策者和利益相关者的深入采访、对两个地区警察工作的一年民族志观察，以及关于警察服务电话的数据。我发现警察在制定地方战略时采用了强调黑人社区暴力和白人社区经济价值的象征性思想。当他们针对这些区别采取行动时，警察扩大了服务提供和社会控制方面的差距，巩固了已经隔离和不平等的景观的特征