Suspicion routines turn walk, dress, and composure into danger signals.

Evidence

Still another orientation of police routines is to develop capacities for suspicion and to conduct patrols to identify people who might be guilty of some offense or who might pose danger, Police may find clues to the identity of a potential assailant in a person’s walk, dress, style of car, or composure. 13 These routines may be preconditions to effective policing but they also func- tion to provide an early-warning system for the police officer’s control requirements. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 900

Categorization

• XREF: Direct precursor to contemporary stop-and-frisk and ‘reasonable suspicion’ debates; connects to scholarship on how discretionary categories encode stereotype. — connects to: Vague ‘suspicious behavior’ guidance leads citizens to profile by appearance; Surveillance turns any departure from a person’s habit into a potential death signal. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 214; People marked as suspects continuously calculate how their bodies are perceived. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 425 (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle: how patrol routine converts neutral body cues into institutionalized threat categories — a case study of stereotype becoming procedure.

Broader Connections

• Vague ‘suspicious behavior’ guidance leads citizens to profile by appearance #expands (0.85)
• Surveillance turns any departure from a person’s habit into a potential death signal. #expands (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 214
• People marked as suspects continuously calculate how their bodies are perceived. #expands (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 425
• External surveillance becomes internalized self-discipline through dress choices #expands (0.75)
• Crowds read criminal identity from physiognomy and dress as a folk science of crime #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 395