Scholarly literature offers much insight into aggressive policing of racial minorities. However, research is not equally extensive regarding the experiences of racial minorities with law enforcement when police response might be decisive for their sense of recognition and protection as a community. Bridging debates from critical race studies, hate crimes and legal cynicism, this paper addresses how policing of racist victimization is experienced by members of racially targeted communities in Sweden. Drawing on interviews with people having personal and/or vicarious experiences with racist victimization, I analyze resentful reliance on the police through the concept of legal estrangement. While most respondents describe police treatment in somewhat positive terms, there is a shared resentment at the police due to the lived experience that racism often remains undetected. Previous interactions with law enforcement also pave the way for accumulated skepticism toward the utility of the policing of racial hatred. Disenchantment with law enforcement notwithstanding, reliance on the police manifests a will not just to be recognized as a victim, but also to make the pervasiveness of racism more visible.

学术文献对少数族裔的侵略性治安提供了很多见解。然而，当警察的反应可能对他们作为一个社区的认可和保护感起决定性作用时，关于少数种族在执法方面的经历的研究并不同样广泛。这篇论文将批判性种族研究、仇恨犯罪和法律犬儒主义的辩论联系起来，探讨了瑞典以种族为目标的社区成员如何对种族主义受害进行监管。通过对具有种族主义受害个人和/或替代经历的人的采访，我通过法律疏远的概念分析了对警察的怨恨依赖。虽然大多数受访者以某种积极的方式描述了警察的待遇，由于种族主义往往未被发现的亲身经历，警方普遍怨恨。以前与执法部门的互动也为人们对种族仇恨治安的效用积累的怀疑铺平了道路。尽管对执法不抱幻想，但对警察的依赖不仅体现了被承认为受害者的意愿，而且还体现了种族主义的普遍性。