ABSTRACT

Amidst the increase in protest, activism and scholarship about police violence and repression in recent years, considerations of disability and ableism continue to be relegated to the margins. This article draws on interviews with leading disability justice advocates in Australia to shed light on the nature of police interactions with people with disability. Our analysis contributes to critical scholarship, advocacy and activism in four key ways. First, we reveal how the ubiquity of ableism in policing renders people with disability dangerous and undeserving Others. Second, we exemplify how the mutually constitutive roles of racism and ableism in policing consolidate the inseparability of the struggles for justice of racialised people and people with disability. Third, we reveal how the persistence of sexism and ableism in policing fails to protect victimised women with disability by constructing them and their experiences of violence as unbelievable subjects. Fourth, we affirm the vital importance of building alternative, community-driven approaches to safety. Our analysis underscores the necessity of attending to the interactions between racism, ableism and sexism in progressing scholarship and organising to divest funds from police and to eliminate their role in responding to unmet community care needs that they cannot and should not control.

摘要

近年来，随着关于警察暴力和镇压的抗议、激进主义和学术研究的增加，对残疾和残疾的考虑继续被置于边缘地位。本文通过对澳大利亚主要残疾司法倡导者的采访，阐明警察与残疾人互动的性质。我们的分析在四个关键方面有助于批判性学术、倡导和行动主义。首先，我们揭示了警务中普遍存在的能力主义如何使残疾人变得危险和不值得其他。其次，我们举例说明种族主义和能力主义在警务中的相互构成作用如何巩固了种族化人民和残疾人争取正义的斗争的不可分割性。第三，我们揭示了警察中持续存在的性别歧视和能力歧视如何未能通过将残疾妇女及其暴力经历构建为令人难以置信的主题来保护受害妇女。第四，我们确认建立替代的、社区驱动的安全方法至关重要。我们的分析强调了关注种族主义、能力歧视和性别歧视之间相互作用的必要性，以促进学术进步，并组织从警察那里撤资，并消除他们在应对他们无法也不应该控制的未满足社区护理需求方面的作用。