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White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication And Existing While Black, Chan Tov Mcnamarah
White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication And Existing While Black, Chan Tov Mcnamarah
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Over the past year, reports to the police about Black persons engaged in innocuous behaviors have bombarded the American consciousness. What do we make of them? And, equally important, what are the consequences of such reports?
This Article is the first to argue that the recent spike in calls to the police against Black persons who are simply existing must be understood as a systematic phenomenon which it dubs racialized police communication. The label captures two related practices. First, racially motivated police reporting—calls, complaints, or reports made when Black persons are engaged in behavior that would not have been read …