Recent studies have argued for more nuanced understandings of zero tolerance (ZT) policing, rendering it essential to analyze the significance and actual workings of the policies in practice, including the context in which they are introduced. This article aims to accomplish this through a comparison of two case studies in Catalonia: one in the neighborhood of Raval in Barcelona and one in Salt—a municipality in the comarca (or county) of Girona. We identify a transformation in the use of ZT policies in Catalonia and a contradiction between their social effects and proclaimed objectives. This article attempts to address how specific sociocultural groups gain power and privilege from these policies. The main argument is that a set of commonsensical ideas have become hegemonic, which allows and naturalizes certain sociocultural practices in urban space, while persecuting others, fundamentally pitting two categories against each other: the desired civil citizen and the undesirable and uncivil stranger.

最近的研究主张对零容忍 (ZT) 警务进行更细致的理解，因此有必要分析政策在实践中的重要性和实际运作情况，包括引入它们的背景。本文旨在通过两个案例研究在加泰罗尼亚的比较来实现：一个在拉瓦尔在巴塞罗那附近，一个在耐盐一个自治市在comarca（或县）赫罗纳。我们确定了加泰罗尼亚 ZT 政策使用的转变及其社会影响与宣布的目标之间的矛盾。本文试图解决特定社会文化群体如何从这些政策中获得权力和特权。主要论点是，一套常识性观念已成为霸权，它允许和自然化城市空间中的某些社会文化实践，同时迫害其他人，从根本上使两类人相互对立：理想的公民公民和不受欢迎的不文明的陌生人。