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“When there is damning video evidence, law enforcement agencies respond quickly and punitively to individualize the wrongdoing and diffuse protest. The self-inflicted act of criminal justice repairs the police reputation as unbiased… propagates a narrative of ‘civility.'"

Racialization as a Way of Seeing: The Limits of Counter-Surveillance and Police Reform
Surveillance & Society
Vol. 15 Issue 1, pp. 5–20,
2017
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