Racialized policing submerges the individual crime in the offender’s race

Evidence

“The colored criminal does not as a rule enjoy the racial anonymity which cloaks the offenses of individuals of the white race,” Sellin wrote. “In setting the hall-mark of his color upon him, his individuality is in a sense submerged, and instead of a mere thief, robber, or murderer, he becomes a representative of his race.” And yet Sellin could not go as far as antiracist New Negro criminologists and concede that the “Negro’s real criminality is lower or as low as the white’s.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 852

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sellin’s observation prefigures the modern framing that crime statistics measure policing and labeling, not real criminality — a useful definitional anchor for the three-way scheme.
• XREF: connects to: Racial framing decides which killers get mythologized versus executed by police — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1751