Police patrol racialized spatial boundaries in the city, not just legal ones

Evidence

Eternal vigilance must be maintained not only against “vagrants and bums,” but against straying young black males, as well. Gang members report that the boundaries of neighborhoods are patrolled with great seriousness and severity. The police are seen as very hard on “suspicious looking” adolescents who have strayed from home territory. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 516

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Lofland-to-Simmel reading: spatial policing is the coercive flip side of the blasé attitude’s categorical sorting of strangers. — connects to: Racialized vigilante murder polices neighborhood boundaries against Black and Muslim bodies alike — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490
• SEED: Angle: ‘The spatial order is policed as aggressively as the legal order’ — how urban planners and police co-produce maps of who belongs where.