ABSTRACT

This article explores how Black migrants were routinely considered to be a ‘cause for concern’ in post-war Britain, identified as ‘undesirables’ and subjected to discriminatory policing practices. Despite the police’s professed ‘colour-blind’ approach of ‘non-differentiation’ – often raising difficulties or contradictions when called on for their observations – characterisations of Black people as ‘more predisposed towards criminality’ led to their being disproportionately targeted by the police’s discretionary powers. Utilising Home Office and Metropolitan Police Office records, this article demonstrates how the police’s professed attempts at liaison with Black communities and recording of ‘racial disturbances’ were in reality efforts to monitor and ‘prove’ notions of Black criminality, which, in some cases, led to calls from the police for the mass deportation of so-called ‘undesirables’.

摘要

本文探讨了在战后的英国，黑人移民如何被常规视为“令人担忧的原因”，被认定为“不受欢迎的人”并受到歧视性警务做法的影响。尽管警方自称“不区分”的“色盲”方法——在要求他们进行观察时经常会引起困难或矛盾——但将黑人定性为“更容易犯罪”导致他们成为警方自由裁量权的不成比例的目标权力。利用内政部和大都会警察局的记录，本文展示了警方自称试图与黑人社区联络并记录“种族骚乱”实际上是如何努力监控和“证明”黑人犯罪的概念，在某些情况下，