Colonial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic populations.

Evidence

As political scientist Alfred McCoy argued in Policing America’s Empire, practices of warfare, surveillance, and information gathering deployed to crush the resistance to US imperialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century were brought back to the United States and informed the development of surveillance regimes domestically. In subjugating the Filipinos, American soldiers often used anti-black racial epithets that they brought with them from home. In its decade-long pacification campaign, the US colonial regime created highly modern police and intelligence units, which developed innovative security techniques that helped to shape a new national security apparatus during World War I. … McCoy further suggests that the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as well as the targeting of activists in the movements of the 1960s is the result of tactics developed in the Philippines. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the ‘internal racial border’ and ‘empire-at-home’ threads already harvested; also echoes the MOC gap on mechanism by showing the tactical pipeline from colony to metropole is concrete and traceable. — connects to: US imperial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic dissent — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 741; Surveillance techniques developed in overseas colonies were imported home against domestic dissenters — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 753; American policing descends from slave patrols created in the 1700s. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 356

Broader Connections

• American policing descends from slave patrols created in the 1700s. #exemplifies (0.75) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 356