Liaison policing strategies are increasingly deployed as Canada’s frontline response to Indigenous-settler land disputes. A fusion of pre-emptive interventions, intelligence gathering, and best practices in public order and community policing, contemporary liaison strategies have important implications for Indigenous self-determination and decolonial struggles. Yet, despite their rapid proliferation, we know little about how liaison strategies are enrolled as a technique of settler colonial governance. I begin addressing this gap through a four-year case study tracking how a multi-agency liaison policing assemblage undermined an urban Indigenous land reclamation in the city of Ottawa, Canada’s national capital. I show how liaison strategies worked by constraining the terrain of manoeuvre for radical organising while simultaneously facilitating Indigenous engagement in state-sanctioned processes of recognition and accommodation. Arguing that the literature on public order policing inadequately theorises the relationship between liaison policing and settler colonial power, I propose “modulating eventfulness” as a more apposite conceptual grammar.

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调节事件性：联络警务策略如何减轻土著土地防御组织的潜力

作为加拿大对原住民土地纠纷的前线反应，越来越多地部署联络警务策略。先发制人的干预、情报收集以及公共秩序和社区警务方面的最佳实践的融合，当代联络策略对土著自决和去殖民斗争具有重要意义。然而，尽管它们迅速扩散，但我们对联络策略如何被纳入定居者殖民治理的一种技术知之甚少。我开始通过为期四年的案例研究来解决这一差距，该案例研究跟踪多机构联络警务组合如何破坏加拿大首都渥太华市的城市土著土地开垦。我展示了联络策略是如何通过限制激进组织的机动领域，同时促进土著参与国家批准的承认和适应过程来发挥作用的。认为关于公共秩序警务的文献没有充分地将联络警务与定居者殖民权力之间的关系理论化，我建议将“调节事件性”作为更合适的概念语法。