Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates

Evidence

Surveilling black bodies results in their hyperincarceration, highlighting how surveillance is racialized and targets specific characteristics like skin tone (Wacquant 2014), so the racialized surveillance of black bodies is reflected in their rates of incarceration in comparison to whites, particularly when it comes to drug use, despite the fact that both populations commit crimes at roughly the same rate (Alexander 2012). — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow argument; situates Muslim surveillance within a broader racialized policing framework. — connects to: Crime statistics historically constructed Blackness as criminal — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2727; Mandatory crack-cocaine sentencing drove Black prison growth in the 1980s; US surveillance systematically targets select bodies using racial cues — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 94 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness #corroborates (0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2569
• Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts #corroborates (0.80)
• COMPAS assigned higher risk scores to Black defendants who did not reoffend #exemplifies (0.75) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 36
• Prior biased policing leaks into race-neutral variables like conviction history #expands (0.70) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 296
• US surveillance systematically targets select bodies using racial cues #instantiates (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 94