Ricardo was arrested over 100 times in four years without a single charge.

Evidence

Ricardo moved to the UK from Jamaica when he was 10 years old, and he lived in the West Midlands. From the age of 14, he experienced intense forms of police harassment: whenever he left his house, he was constantly surveilled, stopped, searched and detained by the police. Between the ages of 14 and 18 he was arrested over 100 times, and each time released without being charged. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 47

Categorization

• CANDY: Stark dinner-party or opening-lecture fact: over one hundred arrests, zero charges — a precise emblem of policing-as-harassment rather than policing-as-law-enforcement.
• ADDENDUM: This directly parallels the overpolicing mechanics discussed in ‘Grafting & Growth’-adjacent infrastructure thinking and, more relevantly, the ritual-stabilizer logic in ‘On Sacrifice’ — state violence producing its own moral economy.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 47